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Raymond Chandler Novelist
Gender: Male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Born: Jul 23, 1888
Died: Mar 26, 1959
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler decided to become 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. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.
Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
society
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
age & poetry
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
intelligence
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
smile