Born in Andernach, Germany, in 1920, Charles Bukowski died of leukaemia in San Pedro, California, in 1994.
He was a prolific writer whose uncompromising, semi-autobiographical poetry and prose explicitly explores the lives of everyday broken people as they attempt to survive a society which is corrupt, violent and absurd.
Between 1946 and 1955 Bukowski notably abandoned his literary pursuits to travel across the United States as a homeless alcoholic drifter, eventually returning to Los Angeles to publish the underground poetry collection, ‘Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail’, in 1959.
Stony yet soft, mundane yet melodic, his spoken word writing style explores a world of drinking, sex, gambling and music through the five senses of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, encountering an ensemble of prostitutes, pimps, boozers and bums along the way.
Key publications include ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man’ from 1969, ‘Ham on Rye’ from 1982 and ‘Tales of Ordinary Madness’ from 1983.
Bukowski continued to drink throughout his career and cultivated a reputation as a hard-living maverick minstrel amongst his fiercely loyal readership, devotees who he once described in an interview as ‘the defeated, the demented and the damned’.
‘The Most Beautiful Woman in Town’ is the titular short story from an anthology which was also published in 1983.
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