Raymond Chandler
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Author of hard-boiled detective fiction, created the character Philip Marlowe; Madoff loves his books and characters.
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Videos Mentioning Raymond Chandler

B. Jeffrey Madoff — The Hidden Persuaders, Working with Ralph Lauren, & More | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
Author of hard-boiled detective fiction, created the character Philip Marlowe; Madoff loves his books and characters.

Edward Norton — On Creative Process and Struggle, and Motherless Brooklyn | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A hard-boiled detective fiction writer, whose 'gumshoe detectives' vernacular inspired the old-school feeling of 'Motherless Brooklyn,' which Norton chose to set in the 1950s to avoid irony.

Donald Knuth: Algorithms, Complexity, and The Art of Computer Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #62
Lex Fridman
A novelist whose sentences Knuth finds beautiful and flowing, contrasting with Dashiell Hammett's 'awful' sentences.