He attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire

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In 1958, Chatwin began working for the prestigious London auction house Sotheby's. Thanks to his brilliance and sensitivity to visual perception, he quickly became Sotheby's Impressionist expert. At the age of 26, he gave up his job for fear of losing his sight from so much art. An ophthalmologist reassured him that there was nothing wrong with his eyesight, but advised him to stop looking at paintings so closely and instead focus his gaze on the "horizon." Chatwin then became interested in archaeology and enrolled at the University of Edinburgh, which he attended for several years, paying his tuition and supporting himself by selling paintings. He worked in Afghanistan and Africa, where he developed a strong interest in nomads and their detachment from personal possessions.

In 1973, Chatwin was hired by the Sunday Times Magazine as an art phone number data architecture consultant. His work there helped develop his narrative talent and allowed him to travel extensively, giving him the opportunity to write about Algerian immigrants and the Great Wall of China, and to interview figures such as André Malraux in France and Nadezhda Mandelstam in the Soviet Union. Chatwin interviewed the ninety-three-year-old architect Eileen Gray in her Paris studio, and it was there that he noticed a map of Patagonia she had painted. "I've always wanted to go there," Bruce told her. "Me too," she replied. "Go instead."

He left almost immediately for South America, and upon arriving at his destination, he announced his departure, along with his resignation, to the newspaper in a telegram: "I've gone to Patagonia." He spent six months in Patagonia, and the result of this experience was the book " In Patagonia " (1977), which cemented his reputation as a travel writer. To the surprise of many of his friends, Chatwin, at the age of 25, married Elizabeth Chanler, whom he had met at Sotheby's. They had no children, and after fifteen years of marriage, she filed for separation and they sold their farm in Gloucestershire. However, shortly before Chatwin's death, they reconciled. In the late 1980s, Chatwin contracted AIDS. He hid his illness, claiming the symptoms were caused by a skin fungus or the bite of a Chinese bat. He did not respond well to AZT therapy, so Chatwin and his wife went to live in the south of France, where he spent the last months of his life, confined to a wheelchair. He died in Nice in 1989, at the age of 48.