“I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”
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Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his sho…
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culture · American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959) · screenwriter · novelist · writer · poet · crime fiction writer · also Raymond Chandler, Chandler
Born 23 July 1888 · Died 26 March 1959 · Q180377
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2026· 7 entries
“You know what Canino will do---beat my teeth out and then kick me in the stomach for mumbling.”
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“A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.”
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“output, as their stories would be sent back if they didn”
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KJZZ: Chandler wants to raise water rates by 9% and waste collection rates by 4.5% starting next year
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ELHERALDO.CO: ‘Ghosts’: Devan Chandler Long y una quinta temporada con amenazas para Woodstone
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The Guardian: Lanterns review – Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre’s alien-hunting superhero caper is a bust
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Unpublished Raymond Chandler short story to appear in literary magazine
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘A moment after death when the face is beautiful’: rare Raymond Chandler poem discovered by US editor
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Unseen spoof by Raymond Chandler shows writer's 'human side'
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Raymond Chandler attacks US healthcare in newly-discovered story
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2014· 2 entries
"The Princess and the Pedlar" (1917), a previously unknown comic operetta, with libretto by Chandler and music by Julian Pascal, was discovered among the uncatalogued holdings of the Library of Congress
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The Hollywood Walk of Fame selection committee announced that Raymond Chandler would be included the following year; however, as of 2024, he has not been
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2011· 1 entry
Cissy's ashes were conveyed from Cypress View to Mount Hope and interred under a new grave marker above Chandler's, as they had wished
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2010· 1 entry
Chandler scholar Loren Latker brought a petition to disinter Cissy's remains and reinter them with Chandler in Mount Hope
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1994· 1 entry
The Square was designated Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #597
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1991· 1 entry
Fulbright Program gave out a "Raymond Chandler Mystery Writing Award" and in 1994, they gave out a "Raymond Chandler Award"
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1959· 6 entries
Died 1959-03-26.
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“Mówiąc szczerze, miałem wszelkie dane, żeby stać się niezłym drugorzędnym poetą, ale to nic nie znaczy, ponieważ mam ten typ osobowości, że mogę być niezły drugorzędny w każdej dziedzinie i to bez specjalnego wysiłku.”
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“Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.”
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“Przeżyję też i to, że nie podobają się pani moje maniery. Są okropne. Sam nad nimi ubolewam w długie zimowe wieczory.”
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“Przez trzydzieści lat, dziesięć miesięcy i cztery dni Cissy była światłem mojego życia, całą moją ambicją. Wszystko inne co robiłem, było tylko ogniskiem, żeby mogła ogrzać przy nim ręce.”
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“Poker: największe marnotrawstwo ludzkiej inteligencji, z jakim można się spotkać poza agencją reklamową.”
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel for The Long Goodbye (1955).
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1950· 1 entry
Chandler described in a letter to his English publisher, Hamish Hamilton, why he began reading pulp magazines and later wrote for them:
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1946· 1 entry
The Chandlers moved to La Jolla, an affluent coastal neighborhood of San Diego, California, where Chandler wrote two more Philip Marlowe novels, The Long Goodbye and his last completed work, Playback
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1939· 1 entry
Featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, speaking in the first person
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1932· 1 entry
At age 44, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression
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1922· 1 entry
As a bookkeeper and auditor, Chandler was by 1931 a highly paid vice president of the Dabney Oil Syndicate, but his alcoholism, absenteeism, promiscuity with female employees, and threatened suicides contributed to his d
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1920· 1 entry
But Chandler's mother disapproved of the relationship and refused to sanction the marriage
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1917· 1 entry
Traveled to Victoria, where in August he enlisted in the 50th Reinforcement Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force
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1913· 1 entry
Where he strung tennis rackets, picked fruit and endured a time of scrimping and saving
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1912· 1 entry
At the age of 24, he borrowed money from his Waterford uncle, who expected it to be repaid with interest, and returned to America, visiting his aunt and uncle before settling in San Francisco for a time, where he took a
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1907· 1 entry
Was naturalized as a British subject in order to take the civil service examination, which he passed
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1900· 1 entry
(in Upper Norwood, now in the London Borough of Croydon)
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1888· 2 entries
Born 1888-07-23.
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In Chicago, the son of Florence Dart (Thornton) and Maurice Benjamin Chandler
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