Bruce Chatwin, born 1940. Public school, meteoric rise through Sotherby's (turn out to be a bunch of criminals), Sunday Times journalist and then novellist. Spent most of his life running away from his sexuality. Died of Aids, one of the first "celebrities" to do so in the press. A seriously troubled, and well travelled man.
Bizarrely you learn more about the places he went from this biography than you do from his books, but then he always said they should not be in the travel section.
A fascinating read.
J
On The Black Hill, Songlines and In Patagonia are fantastic. I haven't read his others but will do so shortly.
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