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Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived in the US until he was seven, when his parents separated and his Anglo-Irish mother brought him to live near London; he was educated at Dulwich College from 1900.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression.
Raymond Chandler. Writer: Double Indemnity. An American novelist, writer of crime fiction featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe, Raymond (Thornton) Chandler was born in Chicago of an American father and an Anglo-Irish mother.
Jul 23, 2021 · Revisiting Raymond Chandler’s most iconic lines. “I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”. Today marks the 133rd anniversary of the birth of Raymond Chandler, patron saint of Los Angeles noir and perhaps the most famous crime fiction writer of all time.
Apr 15, 2024 · Raymond Chandler Biography. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago on July 23, 1888, the only child of an Irish-born mother and a Pennsylvanian father. He spent many of his early years in Nebraska, but after his father, who had always struggled with alcoholism, left the family, Chandler and his mother moved to Ireland in 1895, then on to England.
Nov 25, 2014 · The 100 best novels: No 62 – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled debut brings to life the seedy LA underworld – and Philip Marlowe, the archetypal fictional...
May 16, 1976 · He served in World War I, worked for an oil company, married, lost the job at 44 in 1932 and started to write pulp mystery stories for Black Mask magazine in 1933. Six years later “The...
