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Raymond Chandler

1888 - 1959

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Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, 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 popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Raymond Chandler is the 446th most popular writer (down from 399th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from United States (down from 381st in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Writer.

Raymond Chandler is most famous for his detective novels, such as The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely.

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Among writers, Raymond Chandler ranks 446 out of 7,302. Before him are Fausto Cercignani, Andrzej Sapkowski, Qu Yuan, Henri Barbusse, Vuk Karadžić, and Jim Corbett. After him are Athenaeus, Henry James, Philip Larkin, Thomas De Quincey, Philip Roth, and Demetrius Vikelas.

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Among people born in 1888, Raymond Chandler ranks 22. Before him are Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, Carl Schmitt, C. V. Raman, Jean Monnet, and Frits Zernike. After him are Eugene O'Neill, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, F. W. Murnau, and Johannes Itten. Among people deceased in 1959, Raymond Chandler ranks 13. Before him are Cecil B. DeMille, Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, Bohuslav Martinů, and Billie Holiday. After him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Boris Vian, D. F. Malan, William Halsey Jr., Shirō Ishii, and Camilo Cienfuegos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Chandler ranks 548 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Henry (1797), Anne Hathaway (1982), Buffalo Bill (1846), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Danny Trejo (1944), and John Malkovich (1953). After him are Robert Fulton (1765), Henry James (1843), Frances Cleveland (1864), Ted Kaczynski (1942), Philip Roth (1933), and Steve Wozniak (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Raymond Chandler ranks 48. Before him are Frank Herbert (1920), Susan Sontag (1933), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Jack Kerouac (1922), and Gertrude Stein (1874). After him are Henry James (1843), Philip Roth (1933), Dan Brown (1964), Harper Lee (1926), Eugene O'Neill (1888), and Louise Glück (1943).

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