Barlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.
22 September 1945, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
10 August 1959, New York City, New York, USA
18 October 1954, Independence, Missouri, USA
9 July 1951, Oxford, Mississippi, USA
30 September 1931, Kulm, North Dakota, USA
5 July 1953, Selma, Alabama, USA
8 October 1949, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
16 May 1955, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA
24 April 1940, Corona, California, USA
