WRITER

Raymond Chandler

1888 - 1959

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Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Chandler has received more than 3,086,232 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Raymond Chandler is the 399th most popular writer (down from 312th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from United States (down from 291st in 2019) and the 35th most popular American Writer.

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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  • 3.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raymond Chandler ranks 399 out of 7,302. Before him are Ali-Shir Nava'i, Ghalib, Sándor Petőfi, Erich von Däniken, O. Henry, and Jacques Prévert. After him are Pietro Aretino, Ismail Kadare, Ágota Kristóf, Edmondo De Amicis, Henning Mankell, and Henry James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Raymond Chandler ranks 16. Before him are Carl Schmitt, Giorgio de Chirico, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Nestor Makhno, Jean Monnet, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää. After him are John Logie Baird, Roland Garros, C. V. Raman, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Frits Zernike, and Alexander Friedmann. Among people deceased in 1959, Raymond Chandler ranks 8. Before him are Frank Lloyd Wright, Ante Pavelić, Gérard Philipe, George Marshall, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, and Owen Willans Richardson. After him are Billie Holiday, Adolf Windaus, Boris Vian, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Shirō Ishii, and Camilo Cienfuegos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Raymond Chandler ranks 381 out of 20,380. Before him are Paulette Goddard (1910), Charles Greeley Abbot (1872), Michael Clarke Duncan (1957), Rock Hudson (1925), Mickey Rourke (1952), and O. Henry (1862). After him are Chester W. Nimitz (1885), Henry James (1843), Angela Davis (1944), Ryan O'Neal (1941), Dan Brown (1964), and Ruth Handler (1916).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Raymond Chandler ranks 35. Before him are Louise Glück (1943), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Mario Puzo (1920), Paul Auster (1947), and O. Henry (1862). After him are Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), Philip Roth (1933), Frank Herbert (1920), and Kurt Vonnegut (1922).

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