Linda King

Who is Linda King?

Linda King is an American sculptor and poet. She was the girlfriend of American writer Charles Bukowski for several years in the early 1970s.

Linda King is a poet, playwright, and artist working in painting and sculpture who was immortalized in the poetry and prose of her former love Charles Bukowski. During the 1970s, King edited the little magazine, Purr.

Born in 1940, she was brought up in Boulder, Utah. She was divorced after a marriage for ten years to an Italian with a traditional outlook. They had two children, a boy and a girl. She was an actress before she become a sculptor and poet. If Bukowski's autobiographical writings are to be believed, King had a large ego and a flair for self-dramatization.