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Raymond Chandler

 Raymond Chandler · Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American- British novelist and screenwriter. 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. Foto  Biography · Chandler was born in 1888 in Chicago. In 1959, Raymond Chandler contracted pneumonia and died in hospital. Buried in San Diego cemetery.  History · 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 just seven full novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been realized into motion pictures, some several times. In the year before he died, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.  Works · The Big Sleep (1939) · Farewell, My Lovely (1940)