The Remarkable Story of Charles Bukowski
5 min readFeb 16, 2022
Charles Bukowski, the infamous poet and novelist, died with a net worth of $4 million.
Surprising, considering that the deadbeat poet spent nearly every dollar he had on cigarettes, alcohol, and hookers.
But the story of Charles Bukowski doesn’t start there. Rather, it starts with a man by the name of John Martin.