레이먼드 챈들러

소개

레이먼드 손턴 챈들러(Raymond Thornton Chandler, 1888년 7월 23일 ~ 1959년 3월 26일)는 미국의 범죄소설 작가로서 현대 범죄소설 분야에 거대한 영향을 끼쳤다. 특히 그가 구사한 문체와 등장인물의 유형은 그대로 그 장르의 특징이 되었고, 소설 속의 주인공인 필립 말로(Philip Marlowe)는 대실 해미트의 샘 스페이드(Sam Spade)와 함께 사립탐정의 대명사가 되었다.

Raymond Thornton Chandler 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 pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.