Henry Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski was born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski, August 16, 1920 In Germany. When he was 3 years old he moved with his father, Charles who was an American soldier, and mother, Katharina who was a German, to USA. As the age 6-11 he got beat by his father and it had helped his written as he came to understand undeserved pain. He joined Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941 just before Second World War and after that he moved to New York so he could begin his career as a writer.  He has wrote thousand poems, hundreds of short stories and 6 novels and his written were influenced by social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles .It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. We have read one of his texts “Son of Satan”. He died by leukemia March 9, 1994 as the age 73