Some of Chandler's novels are considered to be important literary works, and three are often considered to be masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). Chandler's Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, are 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.
Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.Ĭhandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published just seven full novels during his lifetime (though an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t.Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. “Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” -Paul Auster “Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.” -Erle Stanley Gardner “Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.” -Ross Macdonald “he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” -Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books He wrote like an angel.” - Literary Review “Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. A great artist.” - The Boston Book Review “Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. “Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” - Los Angeles Times
“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” -Robert B. “ wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” - The New Yorker "Raymond Chandler is a master." - The New York Times
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