Bedford Public Library

Raymond Chandler, a biography, Tom Hiney

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-304) and index

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Raymond Chandler

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Tom Hiney

a biography

Raymond Chandler won the admiration of millions of fans, in addition to the praisesof such writers as T. S . Eliot and Edmund Wilson for his Philip Marlowe detective novels. He was central to the birth of what becameknown as film noir - for both the movies he wrote in Hollywood and those that were made from his books. For this new biography, Tom Hiney has had access to unseen personal papers, as well as previously unrecorded accounts of those who knew Chanlder throughout his life. In the first biography in over twenty years, Hiney takes an uncensored look at Chandler's life as an author, a husband, a screenwriter, and occasional rogue

List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- From Chicago to Bloomsbury -- Go west, young man -- The pulps -- Philip Marlowe -- Hollywood days -- Private eye -- The long goodbye -- London license -- Playing it back -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index