Raymond Chandler was an author and a screenwriter. He is best known for his detective novels and their protagonist, the private detective Philip Marlowe. His writing style, combining psychology ...

Near the bottom of a list of things crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler ... urged him to write “the book of [the] Hollywood-picture industry.” Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as ...

Although readers usually associate Raymond Chandler with the mean streets of Los Angeles, the Chicago-born writer did, in fact, spend much of his early life in England. He attended Dulwich College ...