
IN a British court recently, an author said, in effect, that glue-sniffing had made her write a thriller. The author, Joan Brady, is a 68-year-old American who has lived in England for the last several decades and in 1993 became the first woman to win the Whitbread book prize. She received a £115,000 out-of-court settlement after arguing that...

THE LONG EMBRACE Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved. By Judith Freeman. Illustrated. 353 pp. Pantheon Books. $25.95. Which 20th-century American writer is this? He listened to Mozart in the evening, loved to waltz and believed in filling a woman's room with Champagne and roses. Handsome, suave, witty and elegant, he attended the weekly soirees...

THE LONG EMBRACE Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved By Judith Freeman Illustrated. Pantheon Books. 353 pages. $25.95. Few writers own a city as completely as Raymond Chandler owns Los Angeles. Seen through the eyes of Philip Marlowe, his existentialist detective, its bungalows, courtyard apartment buildings and sunlit anomie cast a spell that...
Raymond Thornton Chandler (23. juli 1888 - 26. marts 1959) var en amerikansk forfatter.
Havde en uddannelse i klassiske sprog, som han tog i England. Har arbejdet som oliedirektør i USA, indtil han blev fyret for druk og forsømmelighed i 1932. Han har skrevet en række digte, noveller og essays, men er primært kendt for sine syv kriminalromaner om privatdetektiven Philip Marlowe. Romanerne i denne serie betragtes som klassikere i kriminal-genren.
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