Writing
Raymond Chandler
1888-1959
Known for Double Indemnity, Strangers on a Train, The Big Sleep.
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Born07/23/1888
Died03/26/1959
AgeDied at 70
BirthplaceChicago, Illinois, USA
DepartmentWriting
Also known asRaymond Thornton 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".
