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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. - Raymond Chandler Attribution: Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), U.S. author. Letter, January 5, 1947, to Atlantic Monthly editor Charles W. Morton. Raymond Chandler Speaking (1962).

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Raymond Chandler

Titles by Raymond Chandler:

• Farewell, My Lovely
• Playback
• The Big Sleep

eNotes:

• Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep)

Encyclopedia:

• Chandler, Raymond (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Chandler, Raymond (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Raymond Chandler (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Raymond Chandler (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Raymond Chandler (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Raymond Chandler (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Raymond Chandler (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Chandler, Raymond (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Raymond Chandler is born
• Raymond Chandler introduces tough-guy detective Philip Marlowe in the novel The Big Sleep
• Raymond Chandler publishes Farewell, My Lovely
• Raymond Chandler dies