Raymond Chandler: The Simple Art of Murder

Featured Speaker: Corey Lynn Fayman, M.A.

Raymond Chandler’s work on both page and film
is embedded in American culture. He was the most
influential crime-fiction writer of the twentieth
century and his hardboiled but graceful prose was
an inspiration and touchstone for almost every
succeeding crime author. Chandler’s depiction of his
fictional private eye as a hard-bitten, fatigued hero
teetering on the edge of the moral world defined
the archetype. His elegant use of the American
vernacular raised the detective novel from the realm
of mere entertainment to high literature.

Presenter Biography

Corey Lynn Fayman, M.A. was born
in La Jolla in the same hospital where Raymond
Chandler died. He has a B.A. in Creative Writing
from UCLA and an M.A. in Educational Technology
from SDSU. His creative career includes work as a
musician, songwriter, sound designer, educational
technologist and multimedia developer. He is
the author of six novels, including the San Diego
Book Awards Geisel Award winner Ballast Point
Breakdown. His most recent novel, The Esmeralda
Goodbye, imagines the interactions between a
rookie police officer, Raymond Chandler, J. Edgar
Hoover and Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1950s La Jolla.

Coordinator: Mark Stadler