Using Raymond Chandler’s Own Words, Barry Day Constructs an Autobiography

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 17, 2014

Raymond Chandler never wrote a memoir or autobiography, but revealed his personal life in and around his novels, shorts stories, and letters. Using Chandler’s own words, Barry Day shows a life balanced between classical English education during the years before the Great War, and the changing vernacular of the cultural psyche that resulted. Barry Day edited the new book The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words.

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