Note: Perhaps no writer has ever had so many polarized evaluations: on the one hand, he will be called an alcoholic poet, an underground writer, and a dirty old man by readers. man; on the other hand, he will be dubbed by critics as the greatest realist writer in the United States after Faulkner, Hemingway, and Norman Miller. "Times" called him "the poet laureate of the lower class". Camus, Sartre, and Genet highly praised him. He published dozens of novels and poems in his life, and he was the most popular writer in Europe and the United States in recent decades. One of them is Charles Bukowski (1920-1994).