Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago on July 23, 1888 and died in La Jolla, California, on March 26, 1959. Chandler was a writer and screenwriter, and is remembered for refining the “hard boiled” genre, born in the 1920s with the novels of Dashiell Hammett and much more realistic than the crime novel of those years. The protagonist of most of his novels is detective Phillip Marlowe, remembered for his portrayals on the silver screen by great actors, including Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Sleep” in 1946.