![]() ![]() When he was three, the family returned to live in Los Angeles. Henry Charles Bukowski was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany to a German mother and American G.I. ![]() ![]() “Fear made me a writer,” he said, “fear and a lack of confidence.” This year marks the centennial of Bukowski’s birth and, along with a new documentary film ( Arts Fuse review) and reissues of some of his numerous books, comes this illuminating biography. When Ernest Hemingway was once asked to describe the best preparation for being a writer, he cracked, “an unhappy childhood.” Charles Bukowski stands as a testament to that truism. Black Sparrow Press, 376 pages, $18.95 (softcover). Some of the most insightful and moving parts of the biography are Neeli Cherkovski’s personal recounting of his on-again off again relationship with Charles Bukowski.īukowski, A Life: The Centennial Edition by Neeli Cherkovski. ![]()
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