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Raymond Chandler biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Raymond Chandler

Author Name:

Raymond Chandler

Born As:

Raymond Thornton Chandler

Other Names:

Born:

1888

Died:

1959




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Detective novelist and screenwriter                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Big Sleep - 1939. Based on the short stories Killer in the Rain 1935 and The Curtain 1936
Farewell, My Lovely - 1940. Based on the short stories, The Man Who Liked Dogs 1936,  Try The Girl 1937 and Mandarin's Jade 1937
The High Window - 1942
The Lady in the Lake - 1943. Based on the short stories, Bay City Blues 1938, The Lady In The Lake 1939 and No Crime In The Mountains 1941
The Little Sister - 1949
The Long Goodbye - end of 1953 UK; Sept 1954 USA; Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1955
Playback - 1958
Poodle Springs - 1959. Incomplete; completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989.

Detective Short Stories:

Blackmailers Don't Shoot - 1933
Smart-Aleck Kill - 1934
Finger Man - 1934
Killer in the Rain - 1935
Nevada Gas - 1935
Spanish Blood - 1935
The Curtain - 1936
Guns at Cyrano's - 1936
Goldfish - 1936
The Man Who Liked Dogs - 1936
Pickup on Noon Street - 1936; originally published as Noon Street Nemesis
Mandarin's Jade - 1937
Try the Girl - 1937
Bay City Blues - 1938
The King in Yellow - 1938
Red Wind - 1938
I'll be waiting- 1938
The Lady in the Lake - 1939
Pearls Are a Nuisance - 1939
Trouble is My Business - 1939
No Crime in the Mountains - 1941
The Pencil - 1959; published posthumously; originally published as Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate, also published as Wrong Pigeon and Philip Marlowe's Last Case

Non-detective short stories:

I'll Be Waiting - 1939
The Bronze Door - 1939
Professor Bingo's Snuff - 1951
English Summer - 1976; published posthumously
I'll Be Waiting, The Bronze Door and Professor Bingo's Snuff feature unnatural deaths and investigators, a hotel detective, Scotland Yard and California local police, respectively, but the emphasis is not on the investigation of the deaths
Atlantic Monthly magazine articles:
Writers in Hollywood - 1944
The Simple Art of Murder - 1945
Oscar Night in Hollywood - 1948
Ten Percent of your Life - 1952