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Raymond Chandler was born on the 23rd of July 1888 in Chicago and spent his early years in Plattsmouth, Nebraska before moving to England in 1900. He lived in Upper Norwood from 1901 to 1907 and attended Dulwich College during that time.
Raymond Chandler published his first novel The Big Sleep in 1939 after releasing his first short story Blackmailers Don't Shoot in 1933. This novel launched a career that redefined the detective genre and established the character Philip Marlowe.
Raymond Chandler co-wrote the screenplay for Double Indemnity in 1944 with director Billy Wilder. Wilder acknowledged that the memorable dialogue in the film was largely Chandler's work.
Raymond Chandler died on the 26th of March 1959 at Scripps Memorial Hospital from pneumonial peripheral vascular shock and prerenal uremia. He left behind an unfinished novel that was later completed by Robert B. Parker and published in 1989 as Poodle Springs.
The ashes of Raymond Chandler and his wife Cissy were interred under a shared grave marker at Mount Hope in 2011 after sitting in a storage locker for 57 years. The grave marker bears the inscription Dead men are heavier than broken hearts from The Big Sleep.