Raymond Chandler

  • Raymond Chandler: A Biography
    By Tom Hiney

    Born in Nabraska of Irish Quaker parents, educated at Dulwich College, and in the `mean streets' of Los Angeles about which he wrote, Raymond Chandler-writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentlman, drunk-was full of contradictions ...

  • Raymond Chandler: A Mysterious Something in the Light: A Life
    By Tom Williams

    What we know of Raymond Chandler is shrouded in secrets and half-truths as deceptive as anything in his magisterial novel The Long Goodbye.

  • Raymond Chandler: A Biography
    By Tom Hiney

    Drawing on never-before-seen personal papers and previously unrecorded remembrances of Chandler, a biographer portrays a man who was writer, oil executive, poet, recluse, charmer, gentleman, and alcoholic

  • Raymond Chandler: The Man Behind the Mask
    By Ken Fuller

    He is the author of several books, including Hardboiled Activist: The Work and Politics of Dashiell Hammett.

  • Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality
    By Fredric Jameson

    The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism.

  • Raymond Chandler: the Library of America Edition
    By Raymond Chandler

    Here, for the first time in a deluxe collector's box, are all seven Philip Marlowe novels--The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window; The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; and Playback--along with thirteen ...

  • Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality
    By Fredric Jameson

    The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism.