Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, England, in 1940 and grew up in Birmingham. After school at Marlborough College he went to work at the auction house Sotheby's in London, starting as a porter and rising quickly to become an expert on impressionist art and a director. He left in 1966 to study archaeology at the University of Edinburgh but did not finish the degree. He then wrote for The Sunday Times Magazine. In 1974 he traveled to Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America, partly because of a piece of animal skin in his grandmother's cabinet that he had been told came from a giant ground sloth. The result, In Patagonia (1977), mixes travel, history and stories of the people he met, and it won the Hawthornden Prize. His other books include The Songlines, about Aboriginal Australia, and the novels On the Black Hill and Utz, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He died in France in 1989.

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Faith: Not religious for most of his life; near its end he became an Orthodox Christian. Source: Wikipedia