Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

male, deceased (1959)
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 - March 26, 1959) was an author of crime stories and novels. His influence on modern crime fiction has...
Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett

male, deceased (1961)
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894-January 10, 1961) was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring...
Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson

male, deceased (1977)
James Myers Thompson (Born September 27, 1906, Anadarko, Oklahoma Territory - Died April 7, 1977, Los Angeles, California) was an American writer...
James M. Cain

James M. Cain

male, deceased (1977)
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 - October 27, 1977) was an American journalist and novelist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labelling,...

Joseph Hansen

male, deceased (2004)
Joseph Hansen was an American mystery-writer born in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Hansen wrote nearly 40 books in a variety of genres, but was best...
Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan

male, 44 years old
Richard Morgan (b. 1965) is a British science fiction author. Morgan studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduation he started...
Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford

male, deceased (1988)
Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for...

Charles Williams

male, deceased (1975)
Charles Williams (August 13, 1909 - ca. April 7, 1975) was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the...
Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell

male, 56 years old
Daniel Woodrell (born March 4 1953) is an American crime fiction writer. He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks....
James Crumley

James Crumley

male, 70 years old
James A. Crumley (born 12 October 1939 in Three Rivers, Texas) is the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short...