Raymond Chandler

    Known For

    Writing

    Birthday

    July 23, 1888

    Day of Death

    March 26, 1959 (70 years old)

    Place of Birth

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

    Raymond Chandler

    Biography

    Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers. The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective". From Wikipedia.

    Known For

    • Double Indemnity

      Double Indemnity

      1944

    • Strangers on a Train

      Strangers on a Train

      1951

    • The Big Sleep

      The Big Sleep

      1946

    • The Long Goodbye

      The Long Goodbye

      1973

    • Marlowe

      Marlowe

      2023

    • Murder, My Sweet

      Murder, My Sweet

      1944

    • Farewell, My Lovely

      Farewell, My Lovely

      1975

    • The Blue Dahlia

      The Blue Dahlia

      1946

    • Lady in the Lake

      Lady in the Lake

      1946

    • The Big Sleep

      The Big Sleep

      1978

    • Marlowe

      Marlowe

      1969

    • The Brasher Doubloon

      The Brasher Doubloon

      1947

    • Morning Patrol

      Morning Patrol

      1987

    • The Falcon Takes Over

      The Falcon Takes Over

      1942

    • The Unseen

      The Unseen

      1945