The Big Sleep #1 by Raymond Chandler

Author:Raymond Chandler [Chandler, Raymond]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Unread
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

About the Author

RAYMOND CHANDLER was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 23, 1888, but spent most of his

boyhood and youth in England, where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a free-

lance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, he served in

France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the

Royal Flying Corps (R.A.F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where

he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an

end to his business career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing, publishing

his first stories in Black Mask. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. Never a

prolific writer, he published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. In the

last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La

Jolla, California, on March 26, 1959.

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