january english travel writer novelist journalist book established travel writer considered instead interested bringing light unusual tales won novel black hill novel man booker prize times named list born near sheffield england went work london gained extensive knowledge art eventually ran auction house art departments left read abandoned studies years pursue career writer hired travelled world work interviewed figures politicians left magazine visit resulted book produced books including bestseller work credited reviving genre travel writing works influenced writers married bisexual prominent men great_britain known contracted hiv died aids related illness hid details following death gay community criticised keeping diagnosis secret life early life born road nursing home sheffield england née mother grown sheffield worked local conservative party prior marriage father charles lawyer birmingham joined following outbreak world war early years spent moving regularly mother father sea prior birth parents lived moved parents house near sheffield shortly giving birth mother son remained weeks worried nazi bombs sought safer place stay took son travelled stay relatives war remain place decided concern safety friction family members later life recalled war home solid black called corner clothes gas mask war mother stayed home paternal grandparents curiosity cabinet fascinated items contained piece actually giant sent grandmother cousin travelling discovered remains giant later sold sent cousin piece animal skin members family mistakenly referred piece skin later lost inspired decades later visit write war lived parents younger brother hugh born birmingham father law practice educated wiltshire student garnered attention performances school plays attained levels latin greek hoped read classics oxford end united_kingdom meant competition university places forced consider options parents discouraged ideas offered acting career work kenya instead father asked clients letter introduction auction house interview arranged secured job art moved london begin work porter department ill suited job included objects kept storage moved junior position working art departments position enabled develop eye art quickly known ability work taught describe objects manner required research objects advanced expert art later run departments colleagues thought eventually chairman auction house period travelled extensively job adventure travel offered relief british class system found admirer book road travelled twice afghanistan trips visit markets shops buy profit order supplement income friends artists art collectors dealers friend painted japanese screen said acid green left ambivalent sexual orientation affairs men women period life american secretary earned degree history worked offices years transferring london office love travel independent nature appealed mid-1960s grew unhappy reasons women men found attractive chairman appeal auction house advantage try persuade wealthy individuals sell art collections increasingly uncomfortable situation later life spoke having burnt said end felt working superior funeral life spent apartment somebody recently dead late began suffer problems sight attributed close analysis artwork entailed job consulted eye specialist diagnosed recommended month break work involved design eye hospital suggested visit east africa february left trip encountered nomadic tribe way life intrigued nomadic guide wrote carried sword purse pot goat hair feel inadequate remain fascinated rest life returned surprise friends proposed marriage married august bisexual married life elizabeth knew accepted hoped grow homosexual behaviour successful marriage like parents marriage affairs men aware affairs men assumed marriage according author biographer true wife hoped children remained childless april age promoted director position disappointment junior director lacked voting rights board disappointment increasing discomfort potentially illegal deals taking place including sale objects rivers museum collection led resign post june enrolled october study regretted attending oxford contemplating going university years visit december sparked interest field despite winning prize best year work found academic left years taking degree nomadic alternative following departure edinburgh decided pursue career writer successfully pitching book proposal publisher tentatively titled book nomadic alternative sought answer question men stand delivered manuscript declined publish calling read working travelled extensively pursued attempt establish creative career exhibit nomadic art asian opened asia house gallery new_york_city considered publishing account trip afghanistan published book light garden angel king journeys afghanistan contributed articles vogue article history today early 1970s affair film director pitched stories possible films ivory seriously tried hand film making travelled documentary film lost trying sell european television companies took photographs journeys attempted sell photographs trip times accept photographs publication offer job hired adviser art architecture initially role suggest story ideas features million years art ran issues summer editor encouraged write allowed develop narrative skills travelled international assignments writing subjects workers great wall china interviewing diverse people interviewed year old architect designer paris salon noticed map painted area south_america called wanted told replied years later november flew peru reached month later later claim sent telegram merely stating gone actually sent letter story wanted write marked end role regular writer subsequent years contributed occasional pieces including profile spent months travelling gathering stories people came settled trip resulted book quest piece grandparents cabinet thrown away years earlier frame story trip described narrative actual journey symbolic supposed fall category spoof wonder voyage narrator goes far country search strange animal way lands strange situations people books tell strange stories add form message contains black white photographs according edited book telling good rendered entire text book work established reputation travel writer biographers called original postwar english travel books said genre travel writing residents region contradicted account events depicted book time career conversations characters presented fact later alleged fiction received award letters praised book result success circle friends expanded include individuals return discovered change leadership continued intended project biography francisco nineteenth century slave trader born brazil present day heard visit returned country renamed december conduct research january coup took place accused mercenary arrested detained days later wrote experience coup story published included following arrest release left went brazil continue research frustrated lack documented information chose instead write biography book published film based received good reviews sell said dismal sales caused pursue completely different subject book response growing reputation travel writer said decided write people went book black hill novel twin brothers live lives farmhouse welsh borders book won best novel considered previous book novel film late 1970s spent increasing time new_york_city continued affairs men affairs short lived began affair australian richards introduced gay nightclub scene new_york period acquainted photographed men photographed fully clothed later contributed introduction book photographs lady accepted husband affairs relationship deteriorated late 1970s asked separation affair richards ended began affair returned topic decided focus australians influenced work author controversial figure collected recorded songs shortly death sold photographs secret initiation ceremonies magazine went australia learn culture specifically dreaming tracks personal story functions creation tale map australian thought metaphor use support ideas humans need believed genetic struggled fully understand describe place culture approach learning spent weeks australia primarily relied non people information limited inability speak languages interviewed people involved land rights movement alienated oblivious politics admirer work australia experiencing health problems read aids known gay plague frightened compelled reconcile wife fear aids drove finish book friend novelist said book obsession great illness favour got free gone writing years features narrator named bruce biography identical narrator spends time australia trying learn culture specifically book goes reflection stated question questions nature human hinted mortality text travelling phase life passing set paper resume ideas quotations encounters obsessed following statement included extensive excerpts published bestseller united_kingdom united_states book nominated requested withdrawn consideration saying work fictional following publication friends composer inspired base theatre score book project evolved opera man wind illness final works work frequently came developed skin symptoms finishing august went switzerland collapsed street clinic diagnosed hiv positive provided different reasons doctors contracted hiv including gang rape possibly patron lover case unusual fungal infection time rarely seen known aids defining illness little known hiv aids doctors certain cases hiv developed aids rare fungus gave hope different served basis told people illness gave reasons infected fungus ranging eating year old egg exploring bat cave indonesia publicly disclosed hiv positive stigma time wanted protect parents unaware homosexual affairs spoke wrote publicly disease instance write aids epidemic letter editor word aids time aid means help comfort end nightmare hiv human virus perfectly easy live aids causes panic despair probably facilitate spread disease illness continued write elizabeth encouraged use letter written prague inspiration new story trip met art collector meeting letter elizabeth served basis work novel obsession leads people collect set prague novel details life death man obsessed collection received booker prize edited collection journalism published time death working number new ideas future novels including epic titled died hospital nice january memorial service held february day announced close friend attended service attended service later commented piece novelist described memorial service essay included anthology visiting ashes scattered near byzantine chapel close home writer near spent months working papers including given oxford collections photographs excerpts published photographs title far journeys news aids diagnosis surfaced september time death referred statements rare fungal infection following death members gay community criticised lacking courage reveal true nature illness people think raised public awareness aids high profile individuals great_britain known contracted hiv writing style described writing prose worlds pages editors wrote words plain prose spare flamboyant writing shaped work provided years practice writing vivid descriptions objects intention buyers addition interest influenced writing aspect nomadic culture interested possessions way life appealed aesthetic sense sought emulate life writing strip unnecessary objects life unnecessary words prose writing experimented format said described book structure words said lots small pictures away create strange original portrait attempt experiment format book begins novel narrated man named bruce thirds way commonplace book filled quotations anecdotes research attempt explore human critics think succeeded approach applauded effort trying unconventional structure nineteenth twentieth century writers influenced work work impact admitted imitating style began making notes travels read time admired spare prose writing approach writing literary biographer described resulting prose quick ordinary people work strongly influenced writing admirer found breakfast scene private lives helpful learning write dialogue began work began studying work nineteenth century french authors writers continue influence remainder life themes explored different themes work include human wandering borders exile art objects considered question human focus writing ultimately explore subject order answer believed fundamental question human existence thought humans meant migratory species settled place natural urges found outlets violence greed status seeking new attempt writing book tried compose academic exposition nomadic culture believed volume hoped answer question men sit book proposal admitted interest subject personal restless month single place succeed returned topic wandering subsequent books writer relation stated works grouped categories defined explained work focuses describing case twin leave home example protagonist feels restless escape year returns prague attempted explain focused work returned research borders theme work according interested borders things changing thing subject published book area argentina chile brazilian trades slaves takes place borders wales england characters protagonist people provide bridge white australian worlds main character travels forth iron curtain theme exile people living margins treated literal sense work stated identified examples work people actual unable return brazil murray cited main characters strictly major events time dominant values similarly murray wrote trapped society values bring leave returned subject art objects career early writing wrote art artists articles included main focus impact possession art case figures collector collection kept czechoslovakia opportunity live west constantly struggled conflicting desires beautiful items live space free unnecessary objects art world result days final writing focused final section tales consists short stories topic end shares advice received told let artistic stand way stated acted advice influence publication genre travel writing according biographer showed inventive writer breathe new life old genre combination clear vivid prose international perspective time english writers focused home instead abroad helped set apart aside writing good looking image traveller added appeal helped celebrity eyes younger writers travel writing cool new_york_times wrote nearly writer generation england wanted point wanted like talk equal authority wanted talked wanted written books books inspired readers visit australia result work experienced increase tourism common sight tourists appear region carrying copy inspired readers travel australia seek people based characters failed disclose individuals intentions travel influenced writers stated impact work difficult helped set free writers conventional boundaries called travel writer identify consider novelist don know meaning word novel said preferred writing stories searches interested asking big questions human existence sharing unusual tales making connections ideas sources friend fellow writer said posed questions want answered gave illusion posthumous influence according biographer work developed cult like following years immediately following death million copies books sold reputation diminished following revelations personal life questions accuracy work questions accuracy work existed prior death admitted counting lies stated researching life stated found cases mere invention tended instances wrote nurse loved work favorite authors fact fan asked opinion divided fact fiction replied don think division individuals unhappy portrayals included man homosexual woman thought father accused killing indians biographer found farmer featured book thought depictions members community stated likes looking passport photograph found accurate truth bestseller focus criticism critics describe viewpoint citing lack interviews reliance instead white australians information culture criticism comes researchers spent years studying culture dismiss work visited australia briefly writer believe widely read australia people previously heard questions writing compounded revelation sexual orientation true cause death known bisexual died aids related illness critics viewed dismissed work said denial aids diagnosis bred sense lied life lied work readers taken cue pass judgement books bother guardian review sun letters opened question read days stated personality learning myths prose remains great writer deep enduring importance times named list legacy sell wrote little black covered bought paris called quotes anecdotes compiled books serve major section book closing producer books read proposed employer italian design publishing company produce company began sell books promote sold company known clothing label produced collection inspired books following year released limited edition set books specially designed covers works black hill posthumously 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