Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.

* 1903 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist ( d. 1976 )

* 1888 – Raymond Chandler, American novelist ( d. 1959 )

** Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist ( d. 1976 )

* October 25 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist ( b. 1903 )

* March 26 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist ( b. 1888 )

* July 23 – Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist ( d. 1959 )

In May 1963 he published a work entitled Raymond Rousell, which was devoted to the eponymous poet, novelist and playwright, who was one of Foucault's favourite authors.

French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau had Roubaud's first book, a collection of mathematically-structured sonnets, published by Éditions Gallimard, and then invited Roubaud to join the Oulipo as the organization's first new member outside the founders.

The next Bond novelist, Raymond Benson, reintroduces Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story " Blast From the Past ", which is a sequel to You Only Live Twice.

Another novelist of the post-Second-World-War era was Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 88 ).

In 1923, Poulenc was " unable to do anything " for two days after the death from typhoid fever of twenty-year-old novelist Raymond Radiguet, Jean Cocteau's lover.

Luminaries such as sociologist Daniel Bell, the French political philosopher Raymond Aron and novelist Ralph Ellison, author of the 1952 classic Invisible Man, were recruited by the institute.

Mystery novelist Raymond Chandler wrote The Lady in the Lake in 1943, which revolves around a set of mysterious deaths in the San Bernardino Mountains.

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* The novelist Raymond Kennedy spent his childhood in Belchertown in the 1930s.

Other notable journalists, editors and cartoonists on the staff of Sun papers include Richard Ben Cramer, Russell Baker, Michael Sragow, John Carroll, James Grant, Turner Catledge, Rodney Crowther, Price Day, Margaret Dempsey-McManus-McKay, Edmund Duffy, J. Fred Essary, Thomas Flannery, Jack Germond, Mauritz A. Hallgren, David Hobby, Gerald W. Johnson, Kevin P. Kallaugher ( KAL ), Frank Kent, William Manchester, sportscaster Jim McKay, novelist Laura Lippman, columnist and correspondent Thomas O ' Neill, Hamilton Owens, Drew Pearson, Phil Potter, Louis Rukeyser, David Simon, Raymond S. Tompkins, Paul W. Ward, Mark Skinner Watson, Jules Witcover, Rafael Alvarez and Richard Q. Yardley.

* Raymond Briggs ( born 1934 ), English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist, and author

* Raymond van de Klundert, also known as Ray Kluun ( born 1964 ), Dutch novelist

* Raymond Queneau ( 1903 – 1976 ), French poet and novelist

* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ), Welsh academic, novelist and critic

Rueil is ( despite the title ) the principal location of the novel Loin de Rueil by the French novelist Raymond Queneau.

He was the brother of the novelist Graham Greene and Raymond Greene, a physician and Everest mountaineer.

Margaret's brother Raymond was a labour historian, journalist and novelist.

Chandler has a peculiar family history being the son of an erotic novelist mother, and a cross-dressing Las Vegas star father.

* Chandler Brossard-beat novelist, author of Who Walk in Darkness

* March 26-Raymond Chandler, American novelist

* July 23-Raymond Chandler, novelist, screenwriter ( died 1959 )

* Chandler Brossard ( 1922-1993 ), American novelist, writer, editor and teacher

Chandler Muriel Bing was born on April 8, 1968, to an erotic novelist mother and a cross-dressing Las Vegas star father and is of Scottish ancestry.

The seminal American writer in the noir fiction mode was James M. Cain — regarded as the third major figure of the early hardboiled scene, he debuted as a crime novelist in 1934, right between Hammett and Chandler.

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The novelist Philip Pullman has been particularly aggressive, calling the books " blatantly racist " and in an interview with The Observer, criticised the film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by saying the books contained " a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic, and reactionary prejudice ".

In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

While continuing to contribute pieces to the Westminster Review, Evans had resolved to become a novelist, and she set out a manifesto for herself in one of her last essays for the Review, " Silly Novels by Lady Novelists " ( 1856 ).

The revelations about Eliot's private life surprised and shocked many of her admiring readers, but this apparently did not affect her popularity as a novelist.

Her contemporaries included artist Romaine Brooks, who painted others in her circle ; writers Colette, Djuna Barnes, social host Gertrude Stein, and novelist Radclyffe Hall.

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

A stormy courtship followed ; Scott was not her only suitor — his main rival was would-be novelist Gilbert Cannan — and his absences at sea did not assist his cause.

In 1899, he traveled with Lou and her husband, Friedrich Andreas, to Moscow where he met the novelist Leo Tolstoy.

The novelist Hilary Mantel portrays More as a religious and masochistic fanatic in her 2009 novel Wolf Hall.

In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.

Chen Yu-hui is a married contemporary female wuxia novelist who made her debut with the novel The Tian-Guan Duo Heroes ( 天觀雙俠 ; mainland Chinese title: 多情浪子痴情侠 ).

Ryder's family friends included her godfather, LSD guru Timothy Leary, as well as the Beat Movement poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.

* August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 ) other sources give year of her birth as 1885

Mulhern says of Murasaki that she is similar to Shakespeare, who represented his Elizabethan England, in that she captured the essence of the Heian court and as a novelist " succeeded perhaps even beyond her own expectations.

In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets ; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.

* The novelist Jane Austen lived much of her life during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and two of her brothers served in the Royal Navy.

Romance novelist Angela Knight writes under that name instead of her actual name ( Julie Woodcock ) because of the double entendre of her surname in the context of that genre.