Chandler, Raymond (Thornton)
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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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