John Martin offered him a lifetime gig writing for Black Sparrow Press, on the condition that this author quit his menial job as a mail carrier, which he had detailed in his debut novel.
The grandmother of one of this author's protagonists jabs him in the face with a crucifix to exorcise the devil she thinks has caused his horrific acne. After the Texan nymphomaniac Joyce divorces him for being unable to sexually satisfy her, the protagonist of a novel by him moves back in with the beer-bellied Betty, whom this author based on the love of his life, Jane Cooney Baker. The FBI kept a file on this author for crude newspaper columns, which were eventually published as Notes of a Dirty Old Man. John Martin offered him a lifetime gig writing for Black Sparrow Press, on the condition that this author quit his menial job as a mail carrier, which he had detailed in his debut novel. This author created the slobby, comically oversexed alter-ego Henry Chinaski to serve as the protagonist of his novels Post Office and Ham on Rye. For 10 points, name this misanthropic, alcoholic Los Angeles author.
The grandmother of one of this author's protagonists jabs him in the face with a crucifix to exorcise the devil she thinks has caused his horrific acne.
(Henry) Charles Bukowski [or Heinrich Karl Bukowski] &lt;Long Fiction&gt;