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Raymond Chandler

1888 - 1959

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Raymond Chandler, né le 23 juillet 1888 à Chicago et mort le 26 mars 1959 à San Diego, est un écrivain américain, auteur des romans policiers ayant pour héros le détective privé Philip Marlowe. Son influence sur la littérature policière moderne, et tout particulièrement le roman noir, est aujourd'hui incontestable. Son style, alliant étude psychologique, critique sociale et ironie, a été largement adopté par plusieurs écrivains du genre. En savoir plus sur Wikipédia

His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2024). Raymond Chandler is the 446th most popular écrivain (down from 399th in 2024), the 548th most popular biography from United States (down from 381st in 2019) and the 48th most popular American ÉCrivain.

Raymond Chandler is most famous for his detective novels, such as The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely.

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Among Écrivains

Among écrivains, Raymond Chandler ranks 446 out of 7,302. Before him are Fausto Cercignani, Andrzej Sapkowski, Qu Yuan, Henri Barbusse, Vuk Karadžić, and Jim Corbett. After him are Athenaeus, Henry James, Philip Larkin, Thomas De Quincey, Philip Roth, and Demetrius Vikelas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Raymond Chandler ranks 22. Before him are Giorgio de Chirico, Abul Kalam Azad, Carl Schmitt, C. V. Raman, Jean Monnet, and Frits Zernike. After him are Eugene O'Neill, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, F. W. Murnau, and Johannes Itten. Among people deceased in 1959, Raymond Chandler ranks 13. Before him are Cecil B. DeMille, Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, Bohuslav Martinů, and Billie Holiday. After him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Boris Vian, D. F. Malan, William Halsey Jr., Shirō Ishii, and Camilo Cienfuegos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Chandler ranks 548 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Henry (1797), Anne Hathaway (1982), Buffalo Bill (1846), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936), Danny Trejo (1944), and John Malkovich (1953). After him are Robert Fulton (1765), Henry James (1843), Frances Cleveland (1864), Ted Kaczynski (1942), Philip Roth (1933), and Steve Wozniak (1950).

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Among Écrivains In United States

Among écrivains born in United States, Raymond Chandler ranks 48. Before him are Frank Herbert (1920), Susan Sontag (1933), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Jack Kerouac (1922), and Gertrude Stein (1874). After him are Henry James (1843), Philip Roth (1933), Dan Brown (1964), Harper Lee (1926), Eugene O'Neill (1888), and Louise Glück (1943).

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