Raymond Chandler vs. Michael Chabon
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Raymond Chandler
1888 – 1959
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.
"The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."
Michael Chabon
1963 – present
Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. Born in Washington, D.C., he studied at Carnegie Mellon University for one year before transferring to the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 1984. He subsequently received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.
"There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal."
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