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Raymond Chandler: A Biography

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 h

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Raymond Chandler Biography

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago on July 23, 1888, the only child of an Irish-born mother and a Pennsylvanian father. He spent many of his early years in Nebraska, but after his father, who had always struggled with alcoholism, left the family, Chandler and his mother moved to Ireland in 1895, then on to England. After receiving an education at Dulwich College, Chandler took civil service exams, placing first in classics and third overall. His reward, a clerkship in the British Admiralty, did not agree with him and he left it to freelance as a journalist.

In 1912 Chandler returned alone to the United States, eventually settling in southern California. His mother would soon join him there and he would care for her for years to come. It was in this period, during a string of dull, poorly paid odd jobs, that Chandler met his future wife, Cissy, who was at the time married to West Indian pianist Julian Pascal. She would eventually leave her husband for Chandler, but they would not marry for over a decade.

With World War I underway, the 29-year-old Cha

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Raymond Chandler

American novelist and screenwriter (1888–1959)

For the 14th United States Sergeant Major of the Army, see Raymond F. Chandler.

Raymond Chandler
Chandler c. 1943
Born	Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-07-23)July 23, 1888 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	March 26, 1959(1959-03-26) (aged 70) San Diego, California, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, U.S.
Occupation
Nationality	American (1888–1907, 1956–1959) British (1907–1959)
Education	Dulwich College
Period	1933–1959
Genre	Crime fiction, suspense, hardboiled
Spouse	Cissy Pascal (m. 1924; died 1954)

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 n