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(Excerpt from editor's preface):Six years ago, I began work on a biography of Raymond Chandler. In so doing, it quickly became clear to me that the best source of material concerning the subject was that written by Chandler himself. This was in part by virtue of necessity. He had been a reclusive man, who had left no wife or children after his death in 1959. Nor were there any brothers or sisters; or even second cousins. He had been an only child and a childless man, and, clocking up over 100 addresses in the course of his life, rootless. The man Time magazine once described as ‘the poet laureate of the loner’ appeared to be the genuine article. ‘To know me in the flesh,’ he warned one correspondent, ‘is to pass on to better things.’But while he may have been a recluse, Chandler was a compulsive letter-writer; and here lay many clues to the man behind Philip Marlowe. The surviving carbons of his letters are divided between a large collection at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and one at the University of California at Los Angeles. In those letters, of which thousands have survived, Chandler talks openly about life, writing and modern Californian society. Many of the letters included

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Author

Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney (ed.), Frank MacShane (ed.)

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802139467

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Memoir, Literary Fiction