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Also Known As Charles Bruce Chatwin
Born May 13, 1940 • Sheffield • England
Died January 18, 1989 (aged 48) • Nice • France
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1982)
Notable Works “On the Black Hill” • “The Songlines” • “The Viceroy of Ouidah” • “Utz” • “What Am I Doing Here?”
Jeanette Winterson
British author
A.N. Wilson
English writer
Michael Frayn
British author and translator
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Douglas, Norman
Norman Douglas
British author
Aubrey Menen
British writer
Llewelyn Powys
British author
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
David Lodge
British author, editor, and critic
Peter Ackroyd
British author, biographer, critic and scholar
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Arthur Young
English writer
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
George Orwell
George Orwell
British author