CHANDLER, RAYMOND


Meaning of CHANDLER, RAYMOND in English

born July 23, 1888, Chicago, Ill., U.S.

died March 26, 1959, La Jolla, Calif.

U.S. writer of detective fiction.

Chandler worked as an oil-company executive in California before turning to writing during the Great Depression. Early short stories were followed by screenplays, including Double Indemnity (1944), The Blue Dahlia (1946), and Strangers on a Train (1951). His character Philip Marlowe, a hard-boiled private detective working in the Los Angeles underworld, appears in all seven of his novels, including The Big Sleep (1939; film, 1946 and 1978), Farewell, My Lovely (1940; film Murder, My Sweet , 1944, and Farewell, My Lovely , 1975), and The Long Good-Bye (1953; film, 1973). Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are regarded as the classic authors of the hard-boiled genre.

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