Pamela Wood Company Profile

Wood was a 23-year-old former Miss Pussycat working as a barmaid when she met then 56-year-old Bukowski, and became a passionate inspiration to the self-professed "dirty old man." As a paean of his love, he penned a book of poetry titled SCARLET, published in 1976 by Black Sparrow Press. Some limited editions of the book are currently selling for over $2,000. Bukowski also made Wood the subject of several poems and works of prose - and immortalized her as the insouciant, auburn-haired sex kitten, Tammie, a central character in his 1978 novel WOMEN.