Compléter Raymond ChandlerVersion en ligne Complete the story about Raymond Chandler. par Irina Kislova 1 life Irish born background States died poet novels oil region professions education writer War Germany addition Raymond Chandler was in Chicago in 1888 of an American father and an mother . At an early age he went to England , had his schooling at Dulwich College and completed his in France and . In to his service with a Canadian infantry regiment in the First World , he worked in many trades and - teacher , bookreviewer , , paragraph , essayist , student , pilot , accountant , executive and " pulp writer " . For the last years of his he lived in the United , his home being in the southern California which provided the for his classic series of Philip Marlowe crime . Raymond Chandler in 1959 .