Barry Day was born in England and received his M.A. from Balliol College, Oxford. Day has written about Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Johnny Mercer, P. G. Wodehouse, and Rodgers and Hart. He has written and produced plays and musical revues showcasing the work of Noel Coward, the Lunts, Oscar Wilde, and others. Day is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Noel Coward Foundation and was awarded by Queen Elizabeth the Order of the British Empire for services to British culture in the U.S. He lives in New York, London, and Palm Beach.
“Terrific . . . Day allows Chandler to elucidate [his] vision
himself. He was a penetrating, thwarted, breathtakingly intelligent
person.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A fresh new opportunity to savor the melancholy magic of a private
eye so often found sitting alone in his small Hollywood office.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Barry Day stretches Chandler’s limber language like a skein across
the skeleton of his life, knitting in the spaces in between with
his own editorial commentary. . . . Even the greenest Chandler
novice may find much here that tantalizes.” —The New York Times
“A tour of Chandler’s sinister, neon-lit world. . . . A splendid
complement of the literary to the visual. . . . Essential for any
Chandler aficionado.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“A remarkable book. . . . A fascinating and convincing portrait of
a writer who, using the material of his own life and his
convictions, refined pulp into literature. More than any biography
I’ve read, this book stirred in me a new sympathy for Chandler to
match the admiration I’ve always felt.” —Dean Koontz, bestselling
author of What the Night Knows
“A solid introduction to Chandler’s work. It includes some fine
stuff you won’t find in other bios and illuminates Chandler’s life
and times ‘like a swung curtain of crystal beads’.” —The Boston
Globe
“Will equally satisfy his fans and readers unfamiliar with the noir
master.” —Shelf Awareness
“I enjoyed every page. I’ve had a collection of Chandler
stories waiting unread on my shelf for years and years (The Simple
Art of Murder). Barry Day’s The World of Raymond Chandler has
prompted me to pull it down and place it at the top of my
queue. I can’t think of any higher praise.” —Scott Smith,
author of A Simple Plan
“Barry Day’s book is a welcome reminder of just what a great writer
Raymond Chandler was, and also illuminates his life—Who knew he
went to an English public school?—and the whole phenomenon of Los
Angeles, and the way then and now the sleazy and the corrupt live
cheek by jowl with the rich and glamorous. A pleasure to read!”
—Michael Korda, author of Hero and Clouds of Glory
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