Bruce Chatwin

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<p>Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book,<i>In Patagonia</i>.</p><p>Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art collector, a restless traveller and a bestselling author; he was also a married man, an active homosexual, a socialite who loved to mix with the rich and famous, and a single-minded loner who explored the limits of extreme solitude.</p><p>From unrestricted access to Chatwin's private notebooks, diaries and letters, Nicholas Shakespeare has compiled the definitive biography of one of the most charismatic and elusive literary figures of our time.</p><p>'A<b>magnificent</b>work of empathy and detection' Colin Thubron,<i>Sunday Times</i></p><p>'<b>Utterly compelling</b>' Philip Marsden,<i>Mail on Sunday</i></p><p>'A<b>fascinating</b>account of the man behind the myth' Ian Thomson,<i>Guardian</i></p>

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Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include<i>The Vision of Elena Silves</i>, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award,<i>Snowleg,</i>and<i>The Dancer Upstairs</i>, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novel is<i>Inheritance</i>. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.

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