Charles Bukowski - American author

I never met B, but I've seen enough pictures and movies to get an idea of how he looked like. However, images and movies are one thing and reality might be an altogether different one.

While checking my notes for the diss. I came across two quotes which depict B's appearance pretty fairly, I think:

A big hunchback with ravaged, pockmarked face, decayed nicotine-stained teeth, and pain-filled green eyes. Flat brown hair seemed pasted to an oversized skull ?hips broader than shoulders, hands grotesquely small and soft. A beer gut sagged over his belt. He wore a white shirt, baggy pants, an ill-fitting suit, the kind convicts receive when released from prison. He looked like one, down and out.

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H. Norse quoted in Sounes, p. 94

The regular, rather pleasant features of his face were buried in a great, pulpy, pitted receptacle of bad karma, self-pity and vengeance, capped by the beeriest, most bulbous nose ever to guide uncertain steps through the darkness. The face hung down between his shoulders, giving him the appearance of a massive troglodyte.

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from D. Scratchan?s 1971 interview, reprinted in Calonne, p. 63

edit:I found another one:

There is something wolf-like about his features ? fringed from crown to chin with long, fading brown hair. His face is pocked and pitted by a thousand scars of barroom brawls. It is a long face, with a forehead that is very broad and high. Bright green eyes peer out from under thick brows. Even when he is friendly, his eyes have a way of cooling when he looks at you

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from W. Childress' 1974 interview, reprinted in Calonne, p. 79.