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	Literary Encyclopedia: Raymond Chandler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 but lived abroad, primarily in England, from the time he was seven until he was in his mid-twenties.
		Chandler's mother, Florence Thornton, was Anglo-Irish and, after the collapse of her marriage to the hard-drinking Maurice Chandler, she left America with her son.
		Chandler's job in the oil industry enabled him to support both his mother and Cissy during the early 1920s, and by the time of his marriage he was a rising and comfortably affluent oil executive.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=816 (675 words)

	MSN Encarta - Raymond Chandler
		Chandler was one of the writers of the so-called hard-boiled school of detective fiction, which was characterized by a tough, realistic, and unsentimental point of view.
		Chandler’s works are mostly set in Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s and 1940s and depict a dark world of violence, corruption, and paranoia.
		Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved with his mother to England when he was still young.
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	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Raymond Chandler
		Raymond Chandler, whose literary influence will not doubt be felt into the next century, was born in Chicago in 1888.
		Chandler was a critical and popular success with both his novels, which featured Marlowe, and his movie screenplays, based on his own work and that of other authors (Double Indemnity, And Now Tomorrow, Murder My Sweet).
		Chandler's output was hardly prodigious, in the numerical sense --- seven novels, 17 short stories --- but his work has resonated over the better part of this century and continues to be a major influence on American fiction, both in its own right and through the authors it has inspired.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-chandler-raymond.asp (1298 words)

	Raymond Chandler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chandler, paid $1,000 a week for 26-weeks a year on his new, three-year contract, was to write the story, and in less than two weeks he did.
		Chandler was called in and offered a $5,000 bonus to accelerate; he considered this a "bribe" and almost quit, but he didn't want to put English public school compatriot Houseman on the spot.
		Chandler did not revel in his success, however; after a long-planned trip to England with Cissy, her health declined – fibrosis of the lungs was the diagnosis – and she died in December 1954.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Chandler.HTM (2743 words)

	The Chandler Style by Martin Edwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chandler was born in Chicago 1888, but his parents soon divorced and he moved with his mother to England.
		Chandler read widely in the mystery genre, but the intricate and bloodless novels of English writers, such a Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, appealed to him much less than the terse stories of Dashiell Hammett, who, according to Chandler, 'wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before'.
		Chandler's first story, 'Blackmailers Don't Shoot', appeared in the Black Mask magazine in 1933 and was followed during the next five years by a score of powerfully written tales, crammed with imagery, which surpassed in quality the work of all his contemporaries.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /crimescene/rchandlerme.html (1604 words)

	Open Source Applications Foundation
		Chandler is intended to be an open source personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and general information management, as well as a platform for developing information management applications.
		Chandler will give non-programming users the ability to customize and extend the program in all sorts of ways, for instance, providing ways to automatically manage complex, asynchronous tasks like organizing a meeting and to automatically respond to events as they arise.
		Chandler collaboration capabilities are built on top of two coordinated capabilities: the sending and receiving messages which form a stream (email, IM's, even blogs), and creating, reviewing, and publishing documents (web pages, word processing).
	www.osafoundation.org /Chandler_Compelling_Vision.htm (1321 words)

	Raymond Chandler, Playback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Raymond Chandler was still working on "The Lady in the Lake" - reworked from his short stories "Bay City Blues" (1938) and "The Lady in the Lake" (1939) - which eventually took him four years to complete.
		Raymond Chandler's depression and drink problems following his wife's death have been recorded elsewhere,, but they were very severe and it was only after several prolonged stays in hospitals and rest homes that chandler managed, in 1957, to finish the book.
		Raymond Chandler's most successful piece of screenwriting, for which he received an Academy nomination, was "The Blue Dahlia" - originally conceived of as a novel - which was released as a film in 1946, with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.
	www.kruse.co.uk /chandluk.htm (3312 words)

	Raymond Chandler
		Although Chandler was later consulted by director Howard Hawks, only the art of Bogart and Bacall saved the film from disaster.
		Chandler was, to my knowledge, the first writer to set up a sort of code of ethics for private detective stories (Dashiell Hammett came close, but never actually put it down on paper).
		Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago on July 23 1888.
	www.america.net /~davdmock/chandler.htm (652 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Raymond Chandler
		For Raymond Chandler, the uncle of alleged child molestation victim Jordy Chandler, and author of a book about the case, see Michael Jackson: 1993 allegation of child sexual abuse.
		By 1932 Chandler had attained a vice-presidency at Dabney Oil Syndicate in Signal Hill, California but lost this well-paying job as a result of his alcoholism.
		The Opposite of Showbusiness A play by Jim Grover about how Raymond Chandler became a writer.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Raymond_Chandler (659 words)

	Raymond Chandler and his Followers
		Chandler's gentle satire of detective stories, "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (1939), seems to me to be in part a spoof of Nebel's "Pearls Are Tears" (1933).
		Chandler's dialogue and general mise-en-scène in the creation of atmosphere and emotional nuances of character and interaction is also at its height here.
		Chandler was largely obscure while he published in the pulps and his first four novels in hardback, but the reprinting of his novels in the new medium of paperback books in 1943 made him an immediate best seller.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/chandler.htm (8541 words)

	Raymond Chandler Biography (1888-1959)
		Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago on July 22 1888, but grew up in England, after the divorce of his parents.
		In 1946 Chandler received Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay, and in 1954 for novel.
		He went into a slow decline, though he is said to have had a romantic interest in his secretary, Jean Fracasse, and later was preparing to marry his agent, Helga Green, when he died of pneumonia brought on by a particularly heavy drinking binge on March 23, 1959, at the age of 70.
	www.leninimports.com /raymond_chandler.html (721 words)

	Limbo: The King in Perpetuity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After all, Chandler was one of the foremost authors (not merely one of the foremost mystery authors) of the 20th century.
		Chandler took the raw, realistic intrigue style that Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and others had begun cooking up in post-World War I America, and gave it an artistic bent, filling his fiction with evocative metaphors and sentences that refuse to shed their cleverness with age (“It was a blonde.
		Chandler relished mystery writing because it seemed to lack pretension, and the pulps’ restrictions on word length and subject matter compelled him to master the art of storytelling.
	welcometolimbo.blogspot.com /2005/07/king-in-perpetuity.html (1359 words)

	Raymond Chandler
		"Chandler is not as far from reality as you might think," he said, speaking on Thursday at a panel organized by Random House, which has reissued "Farewell My Lovely" and "The Big Sleep" in a Modern Library volume.
		La Plante theorized that Chandler desired the women he wrote about, who tended to be extremes, either luscious, leggy man-traps, or boozy chain-smokers with some hard miles on the odometer.
		"Chandler was notorious for chasing women all over the studio lot, and not very successfully, apparently," she said.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/chandler.htm (874 words)

	Amazon.com: Farewell, My Lovely (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard): Books: Raymond Chandler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Raymond Chandler was such a master at his style of prose that you only have to read the first two paragraphs of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY to know exactly what sort of story you're in for.
		Chandler is pretty much the benchmark for these sorts of stories about guns, police, and corruption, so if you like the genre, you might as well read the man who invented it.
		Chandler has a knack for making his characters shine - Marlowe is actually a bit of a soft touch, he can empathise, and from his perspective we find things to draw us to them the way he is. An odd thing in his in other ways very bleak, rough world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394758277?v=glance (2221 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Playback by Raymond Chandler
		“Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century.
		Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl/9780394757667.html (521 words)

	Blogcritics.org: The Mystery of Raymond Chandler
		Raymond Chandler: Reflections on Raymond Chandler, the author of such novels as The Big Sleep and the creator of Phillip Marlowe, one of detective fiction's enduring heroes.
		Chandler has a distinct view of a certain type of American life, and the story is fairly absorbing.
		Raymond Chandler attended Dulwich College south of London, where the famous Elizabethan theatrical diary of Philip Henslowe is kept, and evidence suggests that Chandler was one of a number of excellent writers who'd worked for the English Secret Service and therefore knew something of Christopher Marlowe's work abroad for England, 1593--1621.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/07/29/235419.php (1976 words)

	Raymond Chandler Mystery Writer - Mystery Books
		Raymond Chandler, the famous detective novel writer behind the classic "The Big Sleep", is a man who constantly reinvented himself.
		Chandler's tough-as-nails with the heart of an angel detective, Philip Marlowe, was everything a man wanted to be and a woman dreamed of having in her life.
		Chandler published less than ten novels before he died in 1959.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art11129.asp (278 words)

	Raymond Chandler
		Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, but he grew up in England after the divorce of his parents.
		When she wed Chandler she was fifty-three, but looked far younger and listed her age as forty-three.
		Warner Bros. was afraid that Chandler's plot, which involved pornography, nymphomania, homosexuality, and police corruption, is too much for the censors.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rchandle.htm (1907 words)

	Raymond Chandler
		In life Raymond Chandler, along with Dashiel Hammett the setter of the benchmark standard for the thriller, was a dedicated alcoholic.
		Chandler’s in fact compulsive letter-writing is linked to his drinking problem by insomnia.
		Nothing more offended the Chandler who had realized his game-plan than to be asked by some ‘intellectual’ when he was going to attempt a ‘real’ book.
	www.llamagraphics.com /Meadow/Books/bookChandler.html (1186 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Raymond Chandler
		Chandler, of Anglo-Irish descent, was a bitterly lonely man, an alcoholic for most of his life.
		As influential as Chandler was here, he was far more popular in Britain, a mystery that even Chandler's famous protagonist Philip Marlowe never solved.
		Chandler, it turns out, didn't hate Los Angeles as much as we've always been told; he actually liked "the energy and rudeness" of the city, at least until the Depression flattened it out.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.22.97/lq-chandler2-9721.html (579 words)

	NYT Archives Article
		Chandler had to be somewhere when he began writing ''Poodle Springs.'' He liked London.
		What they have instead is Chan dler's creakingly reactivated libido, which at the fuddled end of his life impel led him to fall in love with almost any woman who was pleasant to him, and which he now foisted with dreadful archness on poor Philip Marlowe and his bride.
		It was his agent's cousin's idea, wouldn't you know, and Chandler was egged on by a newish friend, a London Sunday Times journalist with a first novel to his name, Ian Fleming.
	www.math.umd.edu /~jec/literary_corner/chandler.html (1247 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Chandler, Raymond
		His hero's name changed many times as Chandler wrote; it was only after his death, when the stories were collected, that all his wise-cracking private eyes were named Philip Marlowe.
		The Long Goodbye (1953) is Chandler's most complex novel, and the one in which the hard-boiled Marlowe is revealed to have a heart.
		Chandler produced many original screenplays (working with, among others, Alfred Hitchcock); his novel The Big Sleep was adapted for the screen by William Faulkner, who uncharacteristically sugared the ending.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-37,00.html (230 words)

	Raymond Chandler -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The author Raymond Chandler wrote, “Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their...
		The Canadian-American actor Raymond Massey became widely known to theater and movie audiences in the United States for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in Robert Sherwood's ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois'.
		The Canadian humorist Thomas Chandler Haliburton is best known as the creator of Sam Slick, a resourceful Yankee clock peddler and cracker-barrel philosopher whose encounters with a variety of people illuminated the author's conservative view of human nature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9022388 (728 words)

	PopSubCulture.com's The Biography Project: Raymond Chandler
		Raymond Chandler was born inChicago, Illinoison July 23, 1888, but spent most of his boyhood and youth inEngland,where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a free-lance journalist forThe Westminster GazetteandThe Spectator.DuringWorld War I,he served inFrancewith the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (RAF).
		Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles: landmarks, photos and more from the books of Raymond Chandler.
		Misreading Raymond Chandler, an article about William Faulkner and Raymond Chandler.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/raymond_chandler.html (216 words)

	PAL: Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
		PS3505.H3224 H5 The lady in the lake Raymond Chandler.
		Skenazy, Paul The new wild west: the urban mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler by Paul Skenazy ; cover design and illustration by Arny Skov.
		Tate, J. "The Inscribed Heart: Raymond Chandler and The Lady in the Lake." Clues 19.1 (Sprg-Sumr 1998): 11-38.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/chandler.html (547 words)

	Raymond Chandler - Master of the Hard-Boiled Detective Story
		Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago Illinois in 1888.
		Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood, a paralyzed California millionaire, to solve a flmail case that turns out to hide a murder.
		Director Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling movie of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money.
	www.angelfire.com /sd/kreelah/chandler.html (422 words)

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