AKA Charles Bruce Chatwin

Born: 13-May-1940
Birthplace: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Died: 18-Jan-1989
Location of death: Nice, France
Cause of death: AIDS
Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered at Peloponnese)

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: In Patagonia

Boyfriend: Jasper Conran (fashion designer, b. 1960)
Wife: Elizabeth Chatwin (m. circa 1965)

    University: Marlborough College, Wiltshire
    University: University of Edinburgh

    Whitbread Prize 1982 for On the Black Hill

Author of books:
In Patagonia (1977, travelogue)
The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980, novel)
On the Black Hill (1982, novel)
Indian Leaves (1982)
Lady Lisa Lyon (1983, photography, images by Robert Mapplethorpe)
Patagonia Revisited (1985, travelogue, with Paul Theroux)
The Songlines (1987, novel)
Utz (1988, novel)
What Am I Doing Here? (1989, essays)
Nowhere Is A Place: Travels in Patagonia (1992, with Paul Theroux)
The Morality of Things (1993)
The Attractions of France (1993)
Photographs and Notebooks (1993, US title "Far Journeys")
Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989 (1996)

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