On This Day In History The Late, Great Crime Novelist Raymond Chandler Was Born

On this day in 1888 the late, great crime novelist Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago. He died on March 26, 1959.  

Chandler was the author of The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye and other classic crime novels that featured his iconic character, private investigator Philip Marlowe.

You can read about Chandler's life and work via the Chicago Public Library's web site:

 Raymond Chandler Biography | Chicago Public Library (chipublib.org)

You can also read my Crime Beat column on Raymond Chandler's influence on crime novels and crime films via the below link:

Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Beat Column: Raymond Chandler's Influence on Crime Novels and Films 

On This Day In History Raymond Chandler, One Of America's Greatest Crime Writers, Was Born

On this date in 1888 the late, great Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep, The Little Sister and other classic crime novels, was born.  

You can read about his life and works via the below link:

https://www.biography.com/people/raymond-chandler-9244073 

You can also read my Crime Beat column on Raymond Chandler via the below link:

www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/11/on-raymond-chandlers-influence-on-crime.html 

The World Of Raymond Chandler In His Own Words

Allen Barra at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers a review of Barry Day's The World of Raymond Chandler In His Own Words.

With seven novels, a handful of stories, a famous essay on the American detective story (“The Simple Art of Murder”), and film scripts for Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity” and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Stranger on a Train,” Raymond Chandler may have had more impact on American culture with fewer words than any other 20th-century writer.

From the detective pulps of the 1920s and 1930s to film noir in the 1940s, Chandler gave vision to a new kind of American alienation embodied in his glamorous but empty Los Angeles.

His incorruptible knight, private detective Philip Marlowe, has been imitated (most notably by Ross MacDonald’s Lew Archer), parodied (most effectively by Steve Martin in “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”) and revived (most recently by Irish novelist John Banville/Benjamin Black in last year’s “The Black Eyed Blonde”).

Barry Day, who has done similar service on the works of Noel Coward and Dorothy Parker, has culled from “The Big Sleep,” “Farewell, My Lovely,” “The Long Goodbye” and other Chandler books as well as the writer’s voluminous correspondence to take us on a tour of Chandler’s sinister, neon-lit world.

You can read the rest of the review via the below link:

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/reviews/trouble-was-his-business-the-words-of-raymond-chandler/article_07f4df06-7c1c-56e1-8148-1908195ee13f.html

You can also read my Crime Beat column on Raymond Chandler via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/11/on-raymond-chandlers-influence-on-crime.html

Raymond Chandler Died On This Day In 1959

As biography.com notes, Raymond Chandler died on this day in La Jolla, Califronia in 1959.

Born on July 23, 1888, in Chicago, Illinois, Raymond Chandler went on to become a highly successful and influential crime novelist known for such works as The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye, all of which were made into films. Chandler was also a Hollywood screenwriter, receiving Academy Award nominations for his work on Double Indemnity and The Blue Dahlia. 

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.biography.com/people/raymond-chandler-9244073

You can also read my interview with Raymond Chandler biographer Tom Williams via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2014/03/my-crime-beat-column-mysterious.html