Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler July 23 1888 March 26 1959 was an AmericanBritish novelist and screenwriter Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature He is a founder of the hardboiled school of detective fiction along with Dashiell Hammett James M Cain and other Black Mask writers The protagonist of his novels Philip Marlowe like Hammetts Sam Spade is considered by some to be synonymous with private detective