Bruce Chatwin

English novelist (1940–1989).

Born May 13th, 1940 in Sheffield. [ref]

Died January 18th, 1989 at 48 years old in Nice (death from AIDS-related complications). [ref]

Occupations
author, journalist, novelist, traveler, writer
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks