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- DIED. Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer and novelist
- best known for his 1977 work, In Patagonia, which recounted a
- trek through Argentina and Chile; of a rare bone-marrow disease
- contracted from a plant fungus during a trip to western China;
- in Nice, France. In 1966 Chatwin quit his job as director of
- impressionist art at Sotheby's, the London auction house, to
- study and become a writer.
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