A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Raymond Chandler is an
uncensored look at the tortured man who wrote the classic mystery
novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. Using recently uncovered
archival materials including personal papers and correspondence,
biographer Thomas Hiney vividly evokes Chandler's early years in
Nebraska, his education in England and on the corrupt streets of
Los Angeles, and his later years as a novelist and screenwriter in
the heyday of the Hollywood studio system. Along the way, he
provides illuminating insights into the writer's inspirations and
work - as well as accounts of Chandler's battles with alcohol
addiction and his friendships with Howard Hawks, Lucky Luciano, S.
J. Perelman, and Alfred Hitchcock. This book is also the first to
fully detail the significance and complexities of his thirty-year
marriage to Cissy, a woman seventeen years his senior. Raymond
Chandler is personal portrait of an author as extraordinary as the
fiction he created - a body of work that has sold more than five
million copies, been translated into twenty-five languages, and
inspired countless imitators. A discerning portrait of the creator
of Philip Marlowe, the archetypal American private eye. - Newsweek
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