Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (23 Juli 1888 – 26 Maret 1959) adalah seorang novelis dan penulis naskah Amerika-Inggris. Pada 1932, dalam usia empat puluh empat tahun, Chandler menjadi penulis fiksi detektif setelah kehilangan pekerjaannya sebagai eksekutif perusahaan minyak pada masa Depresi Besar.

Raymond Chandler
Chandler c. 1943
Lahir	Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-07-23)23 Juli 1888 Chicago, Illinois, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	26 Maret 1959(1959-03-26) (umur 70) La Jolla, California, Amerika Serikat
Makam	Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Amerika Serikat
Pekerjaan	Novelis
Kebangsaan	Amerika Serikat (1888–1907, 1956–1959) Britania Raya (1907–1959)
Periode	1933–1959
Pasangan	Cissy Pascal ​ ​ (m. 1924; wafat 1954)​

Sumber

• Chandler, Raymond (1950). Trouble is My Business. Vintage Books, 1988.
• Chandler, Raymond (1962). Gardiner, Dorothy; Walker, Kathrine Sorley, ed. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-520-20835-3. 
• Chandler, Raymond, (1969). Foreword by Powell, Lawrence Clark. The Raymond Chandler Omnibus, Borzoi Books.
• Day, Barry, (2015). "The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words". Vintage Books.
• Hiney, Tom (1997). Raymond Chandler: A Biography. Grove Press.
• Pronzini, Bill; Jack Adrian (eds). (1995). Hard-Boiled, An Anthology of American Crime Stories, Oxford University Press.

Bacaan tambahan

• Bruccoli, Matthew J., ed. (1973). Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908–1912. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press.
• Chandler, Raymond (1976). The Blue Dahlia (screenplay). Carbondale and Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press.
• Chandler, Raymond (1985). Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller (unfilmed screenplay for Playback). New York: The Mysterious Press.
• Dorothy Gardiner and Katherine Sorley Walker, eds. (1962), Raymond Chandler Speaking. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Freeman, Judith (2007). The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved. N.Y.: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-375-42351-2.
• Gross, Miriam (1977). The World of Raymond Chandler. New York: A & W Publishers.
• Hiney, Tom (1999). Raymond Chandler. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3637-0.
• Hiney, Tom and MacShane, Frank, eds. (2000). The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909–1959. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
• Howe, Alexander N. "The Detective and the Analyst: Truth, Knowledge, and Psychoanalysis in the Hard-Boiled Fiction of Raymond Chandler." Clues: A Journal of Detection 24.4 (Summer 2006): 15–29.
• Howe, Alexander N. (2008). "It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction". North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-3454-6.
• Joshi, S. T. (2019). "Raymond Chandler: Mean Streets" in Varieties of Crime Fiction (Wildside Press) ISBN 978-1-4794-4546-2.
• MacShane, Frank (1976). The Life of Raymond Chandler. New York: E.P. Dutton.
• MacShane, Frank (1976). The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler & English Summer: A Gothic Romance. New York: The Ecco Press.
• MacShane, Frank, ed. (1981). Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Moss, Robert (2002.) "Raymond Chandler: A Literary Reference" New York: Carrol & Graf.
• Swirski, Peter (2005). "Raymond Chandler's Aesthetics of Irony" in From Lowbrow to Nobrow. Montreal, London: McGill-Queen's University. ISBN 978-0-7735-3019-5.
• Ward, Elizabeth and Alain Silver (1987). Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-351-9.
• Williams, Tom (2014). A Mysterious Something in the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler . New York: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1613736784.

Pranala luar

• Karya Raymond Chandler di Faded Page (Canada)
• Raymond Chandler di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• An essay on Chandler and Los Angeles history by William Marling
• Shamus Town The Los Angeles of Philip Marlowe where Raymond Chandler lived, worked and wrote about.
• "Down the Mean Streets with Philip Marlowe" BBC streaming audio programme on Chandler
• Photographs of Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles by Catherine Corman at The New Yorker
• "Chandler's double identity: Adrian Wootton on a writer's secret cameo"; The Guardian, June 5, 2009
• "Cheap Truth 11 - page 2"; Fanac, September 1, 2017