Comments on: Raymond Chandler’s Early Life

By: Classic Chandler on Radio 4 « Squeezegut Alley

Classic Chandler on Radio 4 « Squeezegut Alley — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:49:53 +0000

[...] The rumpus kicks off today at 11.30 AM with A Coat, A Hat and a Gun, a half-hour feature on the life of Raymond Thornton Chandler (Chris’ blog has a nice piece on this subject here). [...]

By: Chris Routledge

Chris Routledge — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:36:14 +0000

Thanks. I agree it is difficult to imagine Chandler walking the streets of London in the same period as Rupert Brooke, E.M. Forster, and the not yet quite established Bloomsbury Group. That long gap in his writing career, and the dramatic change of direction, is one of the many remarkable things about him.

By: squeezegutalley

squeezegutalley — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:16:43 +0000

Thank you for re-posting this, Chris. Fascinating stuff! It may strange to say it, but I find it hard to imagine Chandler as a young man. I suppose it’s because he’s fixed in my imagination as the pipe-smoker on the cover of Raymond Chandler Speaking…

Really interesting to look through your other posts too. I’m currently writing my PhD, part of which deals with Hammett, so it’s very useful to read good detective criticism. I hope to blog about Chandler this week too, though I haven’t quite decided my focus yet.

By: Raymond Chandler on BBC Radio 4 « Chris Routledge

Raymond Chandler on BBC Radio 4 « Chris Routledge — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:29:43 +0000

[...] Raymond Chandler’s Early Life. Putting right a few longstanding errors in Chandler’s accepted biography. [...]

By: Ray and Cissy Chandler to be Reunited « Chris Routledge

Ray and Cissy Chandler to be Reunited « Chris Routledge — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:11:05 +0000

[...] the ashes of Cissy Chandler moved from a storage facility to the grave of her husband, crime writer Raymond Chandler, has been successful. The San Diego court granted the petition yesterday. Thanks to anyone who [...]