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Raymond Chandler was a 19th-century American novelist and screenwriter. Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Humor — Witty observations and humorous takes on everyday life

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