biography
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Chandler, Raymond (Thornton)
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| lived:
| (1888–1959)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Taken to England by his mother at age nine, he was educated there and on the Continent. He worked as a journalist for English magazines and served in the Canadian army in World War 1. Settling in the USA in 1919, he worked as a businessman, including 10 years with the oil industry (1922–32), but with the publication of his first crime story in Black Mask magazine (1933), he concentrated on writing. He created the hard-boiled sleuth, Phillip Marlowe, and tawdry underworld settings for his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939). The character of Marlowe reappeared in later works, including Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and The Long Goodbye (1954), which helped establish the American conventions of the genre. He resided between California and London in his later years. |
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