Chandler, Raymond
Chandler, Raymond ( 1888 – 1959 ),American writer of thrillers and detective stories, born in Chicago but brought up from the age of 7 in England, where he was educated at Dulwich College. He returned to America in 1912 and settled in California, where he worked for an oil company before embarking on a career as a writer. Many of his early stories were published in the 1930s in Black Mask, a magazine founded in 1920 by Mencken and Nathan ; his first novel, The Big Sleep ( 1939 ), introduced his detective narrator, cool, attractive, wise-cracking, lonely tough guy Philip Marlowe , who owes something to Chandler's admiration for Hammett . Later works include Farewell, My Lovely ( 1940 ), The High Window ( 1942 ), The Lady in the Lake ( 1943 ), and The Long Goodbye ( 1953 ), all of which were filmed. His works have been greatly admired by British intellectuals; in an...
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