Literature · Film · 1888–1959

Raymond Chandler

Crime novelist who created the private detective Philip Marlowe

Did you know?He only started writing detective fiction at the age of forty-four after losing his job as an oil executive.

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.

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