Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler 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 pulp magazine.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- Dulwich College
- Awards
- 🏆 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel
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Trending topics shown first"The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."
"Is God happy with the poisoned cat dying alone in convulsions behind the billboard? Is God happy that life is cruel and that only the fittest survive? The fittest for what? Oh no, far from it. If God …"
"When I got home I mixed a stiff one and stood by the open window in the living room and sipped it and listened to the groundswell of traffic on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and looked at the glare of the b…"
"To the memory of Mr. Stan Phillips. Just another four-flusher."
"A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy."
"She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house."
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1888
Born
Birth1959
Died
Death
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