Author

Books by Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) was an American novelist and screenwriter who, alongside Dashiell Hammett, established the hard-boiled crime fiction tradition. Born in Chicago and educated partly in England, he worked in the California oil industry before turning to writing pulp fiction for Black Mask magazine in the 1930s. He wrote seven Philip Marlowe novels and several notable screenplays, including Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train. Farewell, My Lovely, published in 1940, is widely considered the finest Marlowe novel. His essay The Simple Art of Murder (1944) remains a landmark statement of what hardboiled fiction was trying to achieve.