Full name: With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer

Author: Susannah Clapp Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099733713 9780679410331 0099733714 0679410333

Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print. Chatwin was a traveller, an aesthete and an anthropologist. In his twenties he was a star at Sotheby's; in his thirties he was a star at The Sunday Times. A solitary man and a socialite; he was always exotic. He became famous as the person who reinvented travel-writing and when he died in 1989, aged 48, he had published six strikingly varied books. Susannah Clapp's book is not a biography, but collects her own memories of Chatwin and those of his friends, acquaintances and colleagues, with the aim of producing a chronology of the author's life and, more important, of illuminating particular fields of interest. This is not merely a celebratory volume, but a investigatory one, illustrated with photographs of and by Bruce Chatwin. Similar books: Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline Savage Art by Robert Polito Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett Soldier by Karen DeYoung Cheever by Blake Bailey Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley Tove Jansson by Tuula Karjalainen Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho