qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Raymond Chandler
Standard Name: Chandler, Raymond
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Edmund Wilson
called the Holmes stories literature on a humble but not ignoble level . . . by virtue of imagination and style. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Subjects of poems here include Dickens
, Thomas
and |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | Windows, marked with times running from 10 a.m. to midnight, renders a sequence called Les Fenêtres, which Rilke's lover Merline, or Balandine Klossowska
, published in the year after his death, a... |
| Education | Fay Weldon | FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 24 |
Timeline
6 February 1939: Raymond Chandler, aged fifty-one, published...
Writing climate item
6 February 1939
Raymond Chandler
, aged fifty-one, published The Big Sleep, the first and one of the best-known of his seven Philip Marlowe novels, famous as hard-boiled detective fiction.
“Detective Stories”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1936, 11 Mar. 1939, p. 152.
152
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
6 February 2008
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