Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, a book by Howard Sounes, published in 1998 by Grove Press, is a biography of American writer Charles Bukowski.
Although he did not know Bukowski personally--he never met him in fact--Sounes wished to find the characters Bukowski wrote about in his poems and novels. Sounes doesn't shy away from the fact that Bukowski had written some terrible things in his life.
The book contains several of Bukowski's own drawings. The title comes from Bukowski's poem "One For The Shoeshine Man".
Sounes, Howard (1998). Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life ISBN 978-1-84195-897-2