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Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
- Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
- Paul Auster,
Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude
- Erle Stanley Gardner,
<p>[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision</p>
- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
Raymond Chandler is a master
New York Times
<p>Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye</p>
Los Angeles Times
Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist
The Boston Book Review
Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence
Daily Telegraph