TWA Poet: Charles Bukowski

1920 - 1994

Today is the birthday of Charles Bukowski (1920), born Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Germany. His father was an American soldier, and his mother was German. They moved back to the States when the boy was two years old, and he grew up in Los Angeles, a scrawny kid who was frequently bullied. He had his first drink at 13: “It was magic,” he later w…