Note: Some of the places and dates listed below conflict with those found in Bukowski's FBI/post office files or in previously published biographies. Anything you see here that contradicts those sources is based primarily on information found in letters, first-hand accounts, and other reputable, independently researched sources.
	Events	Publications	Addresses	Readings	Jobs/Miscellany
1920	Henry Charles Bukowski born in Andernach Germany [August 16]		Andernach, Germany Coblenz (now Koblenz), Germany			1920
1921						1921
1922						1922
1923	Bukowski's move to America [April 18]		Baltimore 231 S. Hudson Ave, Pasadena (with relatives) S. El Molino Ave, Pasadena			1923
1924			Trinity street, Los Angeles			1924
1925	Attends San Marino School (now Valentine School), just South of Pasadena.					1925
1926	Attends Virginia Road Elementary School. Father drives dairy delivery truck for L.A. Creamery.		4511 W 28th St, Los Angeles 90016			1926
1927						1927
1928						1928
1929						1929
1930						1930
1931			2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016			1931
1932						1932
1933	Attends Mount Vernon Junior High School. Breaks out in an extreme case of Acne Vulgaris and undergoes painful treatments.					1933
1934						1934
1935	Begins going to the library; the Baldwin Hills branch of the Los Angeles Public Library at 2906 S. La Brea Ave, 90016. Writes first short story about a WWI pilot.					1935
1936	Bukowski's father loses his job yet pretends to go to work every day. Begins Susan Miller Dorsey High School. [Sep]					1936
1937	Transfers to Los Angeles High School. [Sep]					1937
1938						1938
1939	Graduates from Los Angeles High School. Attends Los Angeles City College to study Journalism and English.					1939
1940	Father throws Bukowski's possessions and manuscripts onto the front lawn after reading his short stories, Bukowski leaves home temporarily and finds a room on Temple Street (with financial assistance from his mother).	First publication; letter to the editor of LA City College paper, Cubby Hole. Short story and poem [apparently] published in Write, Vol. 1 No. 2 (no copies known to exist - would be first published poetry and prose).	2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016 Temple street 2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016		Works part time (very briefly) in stockroom of Sears & Roebuck department store on Olympic Blvd. for 55 cents an hour.	1940
1941	Leaves Los Angeles City College without graduating. [June]		2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016		Works in the Southern Pacific railroad yards (unverified), and making auto transmission parts at Borg-Warner, 1516 S. Flower St.	1941
1942	Leaves Los Angeles to strike out on his own and see the country. While he claimed to have lived in many cities during this period, evidence suggests he was in Philadelphia for the bulk of his time away from Los Angeles.		Ft. Worth, New Orleans, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Francisco [no verified addresses for these cities] Philadelphia		Works at Fairmount Motors, for 65 cents an hour. 16th and Fairmount St., Philadelphia. Works at the Nabisco plant, 1325 West Glenwood Avenue, Philadelphia.	1942
1943	Loses virginity at age 23 to a woman he describes as a "300 pound whore."					1943
1944	Taken into custody by FBI agents in Philadelphia for suspected draft evasion [7/22]; spends 17 days in century-old Moyamensing Prison. Exempted from service in World War II for "Failing To Meet Medical Standards" after a physical and psychological evaluation. [8/7]	Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip published in March/April issue of Story Magazine.	261 W 16th, New York Philadelphia 2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016			1944
1945			2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016 1623 Green St., Philadelphia [October/November]		Works at Merry Co. (picture frame factory?), 634 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles.	1945
1946		20 Tanks From Kasseldown published in Portfolio III. Publishes first poems in Matrix.	603 N 17th St, Philadelphia, PA 19130		Works in Snap-on tool warehouse for 65 cents an hour, 1601 Fairmount, Philadelphia. [Oct]	1946
1947	Returns to Los Angeles permanently, meets Jane Cooney Baker, they live together on and off until 1955. FBI files indicate the two were married. Though Bukowski never acknowledged a legal marriage to Jane in later interviews or biographical accounts, in poems from 1959, 60 and 66 he mentions his "second wife," and being "twice divorced."		2020 Mt Vernon St, Philadelphia [Apr] 2122 S. Longwood Ave, 90016		Works at Milliron's Dept. Store, 4th and Broadway (Milliron's became The Broadaway).	1947
1948			737 S. Union Ave. 90017 [Aug]			1948
1949			521 Union Dr, 90017 503 Union Dr, 90017		Works at Milliron's Dept. Store. [cont.] Works at Sunbeam Lighting Co., 777 E. 14th Pl.	1949
1950			334 S Westlake Ave, 90057		Works at Sunbeam Lighting Co. [cont.] Works for post office for the first time, December 11 to December 27 as a Temporary Substitute Carrier.	1950
1951			503 Union Dr, 90017 268 4/6 S Coronado St, 90057		Works at Sunbeam Lighting Co. [cont.] Works at Calnevar Co. (making simulated wire wheels for cars), West Washington Blvd.	1951
1952			268 4/6 S Coronado St, 90057 2325 Ocean View Ave, 90057 [listed in FBI file, but no correspondence to verify]		Works at Calnevar Co. [cont.] Starts work for the Post Office as an Indefinite Substitute Carrier. Annual salary is $1615. [8/17]	1952
1953			268 4/6 S Coronado St, 90057		Promoted to Temporary Carrier Grade 2, $50 raise to $1665. [4/1]	1953
1954	Treated at LA County Hospital for an internal hemorrhage (bleeding ulcer), nearly dies [Apr] (widely reported to have taken place in 1955, letters and hospital bills from the era indicate the year was 1954). After hospitalization begins writing poetry in greater quantity (earlier letters show that he had not given up writing "for ten years" after the publication of Portfolio, as he later claimed).		1237 W. 11th St, 90015 323 1/2 N Westmoreland Ave, 90004		Promoted to Temporary Carrier Grade 3, $50 raise to $1715. [4/1]	1954
1955	Sends letter of resignation to the post office (citing "ill health") after 2 1/2 years as a letter carrier. [3/11] Sends another letter to the post office asking to be re-hired. [6/16] Married to Barbara Fry in Las Vegas. [10/29]		323 1/2 N Westmoreland Ave, 90004 Wheeler, Texas 2254 1/2 Branden St, 90026 (with Barbara Fry)		Promoted to Permanent Carrier, $1755 raise to $3470. [3/1] Quits 10 days later. Works for Supreme Lighting Co., 600 E. Turner St. Works at Graphic Arts Center, 1534 W. 7th St. Underwood portable typewriter.	1955
1956	Begins first novel, A Place to Sleep the Night [unfinished]. Mother, Katherine Bukowski, dies [12/24]. Returns to Los Angeles City College to take art classes [10/56 to 2/57].		2254 1/2 Branden St, 90026		Works at Graphic Arts Center. [cont.]	1956
1957	Co-edits Harlequin with Barbara Fry.		2254 1/2 Branden St, 90026 580 N Kingsley Dr, 90004		Works at Graphic Arts Center. [cont.] P.O. Box 75-451, Sanford Station (3751 W 6th St.), Los Angeles, 5, Calif. [11/12]	1957
1958	Separated from Barbara Fry. Divorced from Barbara Fry. [3/18] Father, Henry Bukowski, dies. [12/4], Bukowski sells father's house for $15,000 ($8000 was still owed on the mortgage). Reconnects with Jane Cooney Baker. [Dec]		580 N Kingsley Dr, 90004 3806 Beverly Blvd, 90004 (Hotel Felix) 1623 North Mariposa Ave, #303, 90027		Takes a job at the post office as a Temporary Substitute Distribution Clerk (mail sorter). [1/2] Postal Employee Number: 106160	1958
1959			1623 North Mariposa Ave, #303, 90027		Promoted to Distribution Clerk (still sorting mail, but no longer temporary). [3/21], works as a clerk until January, 1970.	1959
1960	First contact with Outsider publisher Jon Webb. Begins submitting poems to small literary magazines in greater numbers.	His Wife, The Painter (broadside) [June] Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail [Oct] A Signature Of Charles Bukowski Poetry [Dec]				1960
1961	Attempts suicide by gas, wakes up with a headache, opens windows.	Signature 2 [Aug] A Charles Bukowski Album		Nomad editor Anthony Linnick reads 15 Bukowski poems and letter excerpts on Los Angeles radio station KPFK. [5/5]		1961
1962	Jane Cooney Baker dies. [1/22] First important review of his work, by R.R. Cuscaden.	Poems and Drawings [3/17] Run with the Hunted [Mar] Longshot Pomes for Broke Players [Spring] The Priest And The Matador (broadside)		45 minute poetry reading on Los Angeles radio station KPFK. Reading comes 15 months after Linnick's reading, the notes for which stated, "Bukowski [...] does not believe the poet's place is on the stage." [8/5]		1962
1963	Meets Frances Smith. Outsider of the year award from the Webbs. First published interview in Chicago Literary Times.	It Catches My Heart In Its Hands [11/26] Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer (broadside)				1963
1964	Marina Louise Bukowski born. [9/7] Bukowski runs an ad in Ole #1 offering to write a book of prose ("certainly to be colossal whatever it is") for anyone who would send him $500.	Grip The Walls [Dec] His Wife The Painter, The Old Man On The Corner, The Paper On The Floor, Waste Basket (broadsides contained in Coffin #1)	5126 1/4 DeLongpre Ave, 90027 (with a pregnant Frances Smith) [May] 5124 DeLongpre Ave, 90027 (without Frances and Marina) [Dec]			1964
1965	Writes poems for Crucifix in A Deathhand in New Orleans. [March 6 - March 20] Suffers from vertigo at work, is prescribed Librium. [Summer] Receives first letter from future publisher John Martin. [10/19] Visits the Webs again who have now relocated to Santa Fe. [Oct] Separated from Frances Smith. [Nov]	Crucifix in a Deathhand [Apr] Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts [Aug] Cold Dogs in the Courtyard [Summer]	5124 DeLongpre Ave, 90027		Temporarily writes in longhand due to "dead" typewriter. Replaces it with a cheap used portable typewriter that he does not like. [Apr]	1965
1966	Bukowski and John Martin meet for the first time. [1/22] Hemorrhoid operation. [3/2] Starts novel The Way the Dead Love [unfinished].	John Martin publishes the first of five Bukowski broadsides to be released in 1966, True Story in an edition of 30 (price: $10 each) (first Black Sparrow publication). [Apr] The Genius of the Crowd [June] All The Assholes In The World and Mine [Sep]			Still driving 1957 Plymouth that he and Barbara Fry bought new ten years earlier.	1966
1967	Takes train to visit Webbs in Tucson. [Jun/Jul]	2 Poems [4/7] Notes of a dirty old man column debuts in Open City weekly [Vol. 2 No. 2, May 12 - 18] - ran 87 weeks. The Curtains Are Waving And People Walk Through The Afternoon Here And In Berlin And In New York City And In Mexico [10/13]			Reads 18 poems from the upcoming At Terror Street and Agony Way onto tape for the limited edition tape released along with the book. [Dec]	1967
1968	Post office officials and FBI interview Bukowski. [2/8]	At Terror Street and Agony Way, book and open reel tape [5/15] Poems Written Before Jumping Out Of An 8 Story Window [Summer]			At the urging of John Martin, Bukowski begins keeping carbon copies of the work he submits to publishers. [May] Telephone: (213) 661-6385	1968
1969	John Martin offers to pay Bukowski a quarter of his own income ($100/mo at the time) "for life" to quit the post office and write full time. [Dec] (As a clerk with 10 years on the job, Bukowski's post office job would have paid more than six times what Martin offered - about $625/mo.)	Notes of a Dirty Old Man [1/24] A Bukowski Sampler [7/15] The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills [12/30] Penguin Modern Poets		First known public readings at The Bridge bookstore, Los Angeles. [12/19, 12/20]	Remington typewriter Records 6 hours of poetry for Beatles short-lived experimental/spoken word label, Zapple. [Feb]. Record is never released, but excerpts appear on CD in the 1990s.	1969
1970	Quit post office for the last time. [1/7] Finishes first novel Post Office. [Feb] Starts novel The Horseplayer [unfinished]. Meets Linda King. First airplane trip (to Washington state for readings).	Fire Station [Mar] Notes of a Dirty Old Man published in Germany, first of many German translations.		Cal State L.A. [2/17] The Kiva, University of New Mexico [5/15] West Washington State College [5/29] Bellevue Community College [5/30] Bookstore ? [7/3] California State University Long Beach [7/22] Venice, CA coffeehouse [8/5] Rembrandt Hall, Pomona College, CA [Nov]	Underwood typewriter	1970
1971	Sells his literary archive and papers to UCSB for $5,000. Starts novel The Poet [unpublished].	Post Office [2/8]		Venice, CA coffeehouse [1/27] University of Southern California [4/23] Benefit for Kenneth Patchen [?]	Switches from an Underwood typewriter to a Royal (Quiet De Luxe). [Jan]. Used mainly portable Underwood typewriters prior to the Royal. Drives 1962 Mercury Comet.	1971
1972	Travels to Phoenix, AZ with Linda King. [Jan] Monthly income from Black Sparrow Press is $300 (roughly equal to what he was earning as a full time letter carrier 12 years earlier, and only half what he was earning as a clerk two years earlier). Splits with Linda King and begins seeing Liza Williams. [May - July] Reunites with Linda King. [Aug]	Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions And General Tales Of Ordinary Madness [Apr] Mockingbird Wish Me Luck [6/1] Me And Your Sometimes Love Poems		Two readings in one day (noon and early evening), California State University Long Beach [Apr] City Lights Poets Theater, 555 Chestnut, San Francisco [9/14] Papa Bach's bookstore, Los Angeles [maybe two readings, dates unconfirmed]		1972
1973	Receives a $5,000 grant from National Endowment of the Arts to "further his writing career." [May] Bukowski performs in a staged reading of one act of a Linda King penned play, Only a Tenant, at the Pasadena Museum of the Arts. Travels to Utah with Linda King. [Jul] Separates from Linda King. [8/1] Bukowski, Taylor Hackford's film premieres at Barnsdall Park Municipal Gallery Theater. [11/25] Bukowski, Taylor Hackford's film (60 minute version) airs on KCET in Los Angeles. [11/26]	While The Music Played [2/12] South Of No North [12/17]	2440 Edgewater Terrace, 90039 (with Linda King, it lasted only 6 months; February through July) 151 S. Oxford Ave. #24, 90004	USC, Pasadena, Long Beach and UC Irvine [readings and dates unconfirmed] Moorpark College [11/14] UCLA [11/20] California State University Long Beach [11/29] San Francisco Museum of Art, Poetry Center [12/6]	P. O. box 26469, Los Angeles, 90026 [10/19]	1973
1974		Burning In Water Drowning In Flame [6/21] Poems Written Before Jumping Out Of An 8 Story Window German translation sells 50,000 copies.	151 S. Oxford Ave. #24, 90004 [Feb] 5526 Carlton Way, 90027 5437 2/5 Carlton Way, 90027	Underwater Poetry Festival, Salt Lake City [10/5] MCCC-TV (Macomb County Community College), Warren, MI (paid $500 plus expenses) [10/31] Paperbacks Unlimited, Ferndale, MI [10/31] Riverside, CA [Nov] Santa Cruz Poetry Festival [11/25]	Telephone: (213) 462-0614	1974
1975	Bukowski, Taylor Hackford's film, is screened at the Whitney Museum in New York as part of their New American Filmmakers Series. [2/12 - 2/18] Meets Pamela "Cupcakes" Miller (the subject of the book Scarlet) for the first time when she brings her friend Georgia to his apartment. [11/10] Black Sparrow Press moves from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara. [Fall] Linda King (pregnant with Bukowski's child) has a miscarriage. [Dec]	Africa, Paris, Greece [3/21] Factotum [12/18]	5437 2/5 Carlton Way, 90027	West Coast Bodega, Long Beach [3/5] Northern California [May] Telegraph Hill Gym, San Francisco [5/31] Golden Bear, Huntington Beach [6/25] Baudelaire's, Santa Barbara [Oct] Houston, TX [10/4] Golden Bear, Huntington Beach [10/31] Amazingrace, Evanston, IL [11/18] Northwestern University [11/19]	Switches from Royal typewriter to a used Olympia SG-1 (The $143 cost paid by John Martin) after Linda King smashes the Royal in the street. The Olympia would be his last manual typewriter. [Dec]	1975
1976	Major profile in Rolling Stone magazine. [6/17] Meets future wife Linda Lee Beighle at a reading at the Troubadour. [9/29] First trip outside the U.S. for a reading in Canada. [Oct]	Scarlet [4/14] Art [12/13]		University of Pittsburgh, S.U. Lower Lounge, Tom Waits opens both nights [3/12, 3/13] St. Mark's Church Poetry Project, New York [June] Golden Bear, Huntington Beach [Jun/Jul] Troubadour, Los Angeles [7/11 opening for comedian Steve Martin] San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center [9/10] Troubadour, Los Angeles [9/29] Western Front, Vancouver [Oct] Santa Cruz Poetry Festival [11/13]	Drives Volkswagon Beetle.	1976
1977		Maybe Tomorrow [3/1] Love Is A Dog From Hell [9/15]		Los Angeles reading, location unknown [1/30] Baudelaire's, Santa Barbara [6/5]		1977
1978	Monthly income from Black Sparrow Press is $500. First trip to Europe. [May] Travels to France and appears on (and walks off) popular arts program Apostrophe. [Oct]	You Kissed Lilly [2/8] We'll Take Them [9/5] Women [12/15] Legs, Hips And Behind	1148 W. Santa Cruz St, San Pedro, 90731 [Oct]	Milwaukee, U of W [4/17] Germany [May]		1978
1979	Meets Barbet Schroeder and begins writing the screenplay, The Rats of Thirst, which would eventually be filmed as Barfly. Buys first new car (with his own money), a BMW.	Play The Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A Bit [7/25] Shakespeare Never Did This [Sep]		Viking Inn, Vancouver [10/12]	Martin expresses concern for Bukowski's "image" when he buys a new BMW. Volkswagon Beetle is relegated to the garage. [Jun] His Olympia typewriter in the shop for repairs, Bukowski buys a portable typewriter, but complains that it does not have the "soul" of the Olympia. [Aug]	1979
1980				Final live reading at the Sweetwater in Redondo Beach. [3/31]	Bukowski stops using carbon paper and begins to use a Xerox machine to make manuscript submission copies. [May]	1980
1981	Italian film production of Tales of Ordinary Madness starring Ben Gazzara released. [9/11]	Dangling In The Tournefortia [9/25]			Temporary split with Linda. [Feb] Phone: (213) 832-3170	1981
1982	1982 earnings from foreign royalty payments (does not include Black Sparrow, City Lights, etc.): $89,389.37. LA Weekly asks him to write a weekly column, he submits first installment but the weekly column never happens. [Sep]	Ham On Rye [7/28] Horsemeat [12/27]			Temporary split with Linda. [Oct - Dec]	1982
1983		Bring Me Your Love [7/8] Hot Water Music [9/28] The Bukowski/Purdy Letters [Nov] The Most Beautiful Woman In Town And Other Stories [Dec] Tales Of Ordinary Madness [Dec]			Olympia typewriter breaks down and he writes letters by hand. [7/16] Temporary split with Linda. [Aug] Switches from Olympia typewriter to an IBM Selectric. [9/9]	1983
1984		There's No Business [3/28] War All The Time [10/16] Barfly [Dec] Horses Don't Bet On People & Neither Do I Going Modern			Phone: (213) 519-7279	1984
1985	Proposes to Linda Lee Linda Lee Beighle. [3/20] Marries Linda Lee at the Church of the People in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. [8/18]	Cornered [Oct]				1985
1986		The Wedding [Jan] The Day It Snowed In L.A. [Sep] You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense [9/26] Relentless As The Tarantula			P. O. box 132, San Pedro, 90731 [Mar]	1986
1987	Barfly film released. [10/16] Belgian film Crazy Love, released, based on Bukowski stories. [Oct] The Bukowski Tapes premieres in America at EZTV in Santa Monica, CA (with Bukowski and Schroeder in attendance), limited release on VHS by Lagoon Video.	Bukowski Photographs 1977-1987 [Sep]				1987
1988	Undergoes three treatments for removal of separate skin cancers. [summer]	The Roominghouse Madrigals [5/25] Beauti-Ful [Aug]				1988
1989	Undergoes treatment for Tuberculosis, which forces him to temporarily give up drinking. Buys new car; Acura Legend.	Red [1/30] Hollywood [4/25]				1989
1990		Septuagenarian Stew [5/10] This [5/25] Not Quite Bernadette [Fall] Darkness & Ice [Nov]				1990
1991	First full-length biography published, Neeli Cherkovski's Hank - The Life of Charles Bukowski. Takes Linda to Disneyland for her birthday and has a good time, despite his firmly held belief that Mickey Mouse has no soul. [11/14]	In The Shadow Of The Rose [7/25] People Poems			Switches from the IBM Selectric to an Apple MacIntosh. [1/18] Abandons the Xerox machine and now uses only a computer printer to make manuscripts. [Apr]	1991
1992	Undergoes treatment for cataracts, diminishing his vision. Monthly income from Black Sparrow Press is $7,000.	The Last Night Of The Earth Poems [3/23] Three Poems [5/21]				1992
1993	Spends 64 days in the hospital receiving chemotherapy treatment for Leukemia, quits drinking and smoking. Begins practicing Transcendental Meditation. [9/19]	Bukowski Photographs 1977-1991 [Jan] Run With The Hunted (collection of previously published poems) [5/4] Screams From the Balcony (letters) [11/15]				1993
1994	Bukowski dies. [3/9] Buried at Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, near his home in San Pedro. [3/14]	Pulp [4/22]			Writing until the very end, he uses a fax machine to send his "first fax poem" to John Martin. [2/18] Bukowski dies less than 3 weeks later.	1994
1995		Heat Wave [Oct] Living on Luck (Letters) [11/15]				1995
1996		Betting on the Muse [5/13] (The final poetry collection to remain true to what Bukowski wrote. Subsequent collections contain numerous editorial changes.)				1996
1997		Bone Palace Ballet [3/25] The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship [3/23]				1997
1998						1998
1999		Reach For The Sun (Letters) [June] what matters most is how well you walk through the fire [Sep]				1999
2000		Open All Night [Oct]				2000
2001		Beerspit Night and Cursing (Letters) [May] the night torn mad with footsteps (Final Black Sparrow Bukowski poetry release) [Sep]				2001
2002		Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line the Way (first release published by Ecco/HarperCollins). [12/24]				2002
2003		Bukowski (Photographs) Final Black Sparrow publication The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain [12/23]				2003
2004	Born Into This documentary feature released. [5/28]					2004
2005	Factotum film released in Europe (U.S. release in 2006).	Slouching Toward Nirvana [1/18]				2005
2006	Linda donates Bukowski's papers to the Huntington Library in Los Angeles. [June] Huntington Library event, "Celebrating Bukowski," to announce Linda's donation. [9/20] The Bukowski Tapes gets wide release on DVD.	Come On In! [1/3]				2006
2007		The People Look Like Flowers At Last [4/1] Pleasures of the Damned (collection of previously published poems, includes a few uncollected works). [10/30]				2007
2008		Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook [Sep]				2008
2009		The Continual Condition [10/2]				2009
2010	Charles Bukowski's Scarlet, by Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood. [May] "Bukowski Aloud" event at the Huntington Library to mark the opening of the exhibition, "Charles Bukowski: Poet on the Edge." [10/27]	Absence of the Hero [Apr]				2010
2011		More Notes of a Dirty Old Man [9/15]				2011

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