Bruce Chatwin

Novelist, Author

1940 – 1989

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Who was Bruce Chatwin?

Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill. Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to have contracted HIV and died of AIDS, although he hid the facts of his illness.

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Born
May 13, 1940
Sheffield
Also known as
  • Charles Bruce Chatwin
Spouses
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Marlborough College
  • University of Edinburgh
Died
Jan 18, 1989
Nice

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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