Both make The Long Goodbye the most autobiographical of Chandler’s books. Philip Marlowe may very well have been the man Chandler wanted to be, but his penultimate novel features two other characters that the author feared he really was. In 2009 James Ellroy was quoted in The Paris Review thus: ‘Chandler wrote the kind of guy that he wanted to be, Hammett wrote the kind of guy that he was afraid he was.’ I used to agree until I read The Long Goodbye, which blows this interpretation out of the water. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.“ The French have a phrase for it. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R.
Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator.
Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction.
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