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Charles Bukowski
Charles BukowskiPoetry, Fiction, and Contemporary American LiteratureAmerican1920–1994
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Charles Bukowski was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist who wrote with a candid, bitter, and unadorned prose about marginal life, poverty, grinding work, loneliness, human relationships, and urban existence. He is considered one of the most recognized figures of American underground literature in the second half of the twentieth century.