Play the Piano Drunk
by Jon Whitty

Play the Piano Drunk is based on the life of Charles Bukowski.  Bukowski is one of America’s best-known comtemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet.  He was born in Andernach, Germany in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three.  He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years.  He published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five.  He died in Sen Pedro, California on March 9, 1992 at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his final novel, Pulp.  During his lifetime he published more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including the novels Post Office (1971), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982) and Hollywood (1989).