He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Ĭhandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. His first short story, " Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. Raymond Thornton Chandler (J– March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
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