Raymond Chandler

Chronicles the career of Raymond Chandler from an aspiring man of letters in London to a professional novelist and literary celebrity who achieved commercial success and established an enduring reputation as a great American novelist. His novels are works of perceptive social realism that capture and interpret American life between 1939 and 1959. He wrote seven of the best novels in the American hard-boiled tradition, as well as lyrical and evocative prose.