Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English writer whose best known works are In Patagonia and The Songlines. Although he was often referred to as a travel writer, a term he eschewed, Chatwin was also a novelist and a journalist who interviewed figures such as Indira Gandhi and Andr� Malraux. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill and his novel Utz was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 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. Chatwin gave various explanations for his ill health, including malaria and a fungal infection. Following his death he was criticized for not publicly disclosing his diagnosis. 

May 13th, 1940 in Sheffield  /  Died:   Jan 18th, 1989 - AIDS