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Author: Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After visiting Marlborough School he worked as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later he was still working at Sotheby's, but now he had become one of the youngest directors. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked for the Sunday Times. Then he went to Patagonia for six months'. This trip inspired him to write "In Patagonia", which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E. M. Forster award and even launched his writing career.
One of his best-selling books was "The Songlines", which went straight to number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list and stayed in the top ten for nine months.
After 49 years, Bruce Chatwin died in January 1989.
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