Charles Bukowski - American author

It'd be great to know what Bukowski would make of this. As he said over and over and again, he unsuccessfully tried Harper's in the 1940s, when he was a completely unknown writer. Over the years, he also tried The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry and other major periodicals, but his work was always turned down -- the exception being Poetry, where he had three poems published shortly before he passed away.

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/07/the-act-of-art/