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- Raymond_Chandler abstract "Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was a British/American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth in progress at his death was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. His protagonist, Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective," both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe.Some of Chandler's novels are considered important literary works, and three are often considered masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953). The Long Goodbye is praised within an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery".".
- Raymond_Chandler activeYearsStartYear "1933".
- Raymond_Chandler alias "Chandler, Raymond Thornton (full name)".
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- Raymond_Chandler birthName "Raymond Thornton Chandler".
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- Raymond_Chandler birthYear "1888".
- Raymond_Chandler deathDate "1959-03-26".
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- Raymond_Chandler deathYear "1959".
- Raymond_Chandler genre Crime_fiction.
- Raymond_Chandler genre Hardboiled.
- Raymond_Chandler genre Suspense.
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- Raymond_Chandler restingPlace Mount_Hope_Cemetery_(San_Diego,_California).
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