1941- . US novelist and travel writer whose
works include the novels Saint Jack 1973, The
Mosquito Coast 1981, Doctor Slaughter 1984,
and My Secret History 1989, and accounts of
his travels by train The Great Railway Bazaar
1975, The Old Patagonian Express 1979,
Kingdom by the Sea 1983, and Riding the Iron
Rooster 1988.