Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe. At least three …
Raymond Chandler
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Реймънд Чандлър, Reymond Tsʹandler, Rīmūn Šāndlīr, and 36 others
رايموند تشاندلر, Dashiell Hammett, 雷蒙德·钱德勒, Rainmont Tsantler, Rajmond Čandler, 雷蒙·錢德勒, რაიმონდ ჩანდლერი, Reimonds Čandlers, Реймонд Чендлер, 레이먼드 챈들러, レイモンドチャンドラー, Рејмонд Чандлер, רימונד צ'נדלר, Rajmond Čendler, Чандлер, ריימונד צ׳אנדלר, Reēmont Tsantler, Raimondas Čandleris, ريمون شاندلر،, レイモンド・チャンドラー, Raimundus Thornton Chandler, Raymond Chandler, レイモンド チャンドラー, Raimonds Čandleris, R チャンドラー, Raymond Thornton Chandler, Raimond Chandler, ریموند چندلر, Рејмонд Чендлер, Раймонд Чендлер, Chandler, Rejmond Čendler, Рэймонд Чандлер, ריימונד צ׳נדלר, ריימונד צ'נדלר, Rejmond Čandler - Born:
- July 23, 1888
- Died:
- March 26, 1959
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Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe. At least three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery". Four of his novels appear on the British-based Crime Writers Association Poll (1990) of the best 100 crime fiction novels ever published.
