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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Bukowski ranks 137 out of 7,302.

During his travels, he occasionally returned to Los Angeles, but in 1947, he returned permanently and lived there for the rest of his life.

While "on the road," Story magazine published Bukowski for the first time. After that experience, he began writing much more poetry and became one of the most unique and influential voices in 20th-century American poetry.

Ultimately, Bukowski is perhaps more well-known for his novels, such as Post Office, Factotum, Women, and Ham on Rye, than for his poetry.

Before him are Kim Il-sung, Ayrton Senna, Richard Nixon, and Karl Popper. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. But when reading Bukowski's original manuscripts for the work in the posthumous collections, it becomes apparent that Bukowski hadn't lost his edge.

After him are Heinz Guderian (1888), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Pope Joan (null), Gerhard Schröder (1944), Michael Schumacher (1969), and Pope Damasus II (1000).

Others born in Germany

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Charles Bukowski ranks 9.

When he was two years old, he and his parents boarded a ship and sailed to the United States, where they settled in Los Angeles, California, near Bukowski's father's family.

Shortly after America joined World War II, Bukowski left Los Angeles and traveled around the country, spending extended periods in Philadelphia and New Orleans.

The posthumous collections were seen by many as lesser works, lacking the grit, impact, and voice of the poems published during his lifetime. Bukowski wrote about the experience in his funny, underrated novel Hollywood. After him are Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Farouk of Egypt, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.

But even while working on novels, he continued to write poetry and short stories. Instead, it's the wide-reaching, significant, and often baffling changes made by Bukowski's then-editor that make the collections read as mediocre.

Our comprehensive Bukowski database contains:

• 5484 total works (4710 unique works, 774 alternate titles or versions, 502 unpublished works)
• 4882 poems
• 560 stories
• 5250 works in 133books
• 2958 works in 1417 magazines
• 57 broadsides
• 1583 poem manuscripts
• 264 letter manuscripts
• 43 releases of 21 different recording sessions or readings
• 868 links to scans of unpublished or uncollected work and first magazine appearances in the Bukowski forum



Database last updated on November 3rd, 2025