Timeline Raymond Chandler

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• 1888 Raymond Chandler born in Chicago Raymond Chandler is born in Chicago to an American father and an Irish mother.
• 1900 Chandler at Dulwich College After his parents separate, Raymond Chandler is raised in London and educated at Dulwich College.
• 1907 Chandler joins the Admiralty Raymond Chandler becomes a British subject and takes a civil service job at the Admiralty, which he quits within a year.
• 1913 Chandler settles in Los Angeles Raymond Chandler returns to America and settles in Los Angeles.
• 1917 Chandler joins the Canadian army Raymond Chandler enlists in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and serves in the trenches in France.
• 1924 Chandler marries Cissy Pascal Raymond Chandler marries Pearl Eugenie "Cissy" Pascal, 18 years his senior.
• 1932 Chandler fired from the oil company Raymond Chandler loses his job as a vice-president of an oil syndicate, partly because of his drinking.
• 1933 Chandler's first story in Black Mask Raymond Chandler's first story, Blackmailers Don't Shoot, appears in the pulp magazine Black Mask.
• 1939 Chandler publishes The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler's first novel introduces the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.
• 1940 Chandler publishes Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler's second Marlowe novel is published.
• 1944 Chandler co-writes Double Indemnity Raymond Chandler co-writes the film noir Double Indemnity with Billy Wilder and is nominated for an Oscar.
• 1946 Chandler's The Big Sleep filmed Howard Hawks's film of Raymond Chandler's novel stars Humphrey Bogart as Marlowe and Lauren Bacall.
• 1953 Chandler publishes The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler's longest and most personal Marlowe novel appears. It wins the Edgar Award in 1955.
• 1954 Chandler's wife Cissy dies Cissy Chandler dies after a long illness, and Raymond Chandler falls into depression and heavy drinking.
• 1959 Raymond Chandler dies in La Jolla Raymond Chandler dies of pneumonia in La Jolla, California, leaving Poodle Springs unfinished.