Charles Bukowski

1920–1994 (age 74)

poet and novelist

Biography

Charles Bukowski, born in Germany and raised in Los Angeles, gave voice to the gritty margins of American life through poems and novels such as Post Office and Love Is a Dog from Hell, chronicling drink, work, and the city that shaped him.

He remained close to the region that sustained him and now rests at Green Hills Memorial Park, where readers and writers alike remember his unflinching honesty.

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