Bruce Chatwin
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Bruce Chatwin (Charles Bruce Chatwin 1940–1989) was a novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to have contracted HIV and died of AIDS, although he hid the facts of his illness.
Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, and his first home was his grandparents' house in Dronfield, North East Derbyshire. He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire.
