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JUDITH FREEMAN.net is the personal webpage of Judith Freeman.
Author of The Chinchilla Farm, A Desert of Pure Feeling, Red Water (fiction), and The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and The Woman He Loved (non-fiction).
About the AUTHOR
Judith Freeman is a novelist, essayist, critic, and short story writer whose first work of non-fiction, The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and The Woman He Loved, is due out from Pantheon in November 2007. Her first book was a collection of short stories, Family Attractions (1988), which was praised in the New York Times and The New York Review of Books for its originality. read more
About the NEW Book
THE LONG EMBRACE - Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
Raymond Chandler was one of the most enduring and original crime novelists of the 20th century, and much has been written about his writing life, which began in 1933 with the publication of his first story in a pulp magazine, when Chandler was 45. But as Judith Freeman uncovers in THE LONG EMBRACE: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved (Pantheon Books/November 6, 2007/$25.95), it is Chandler’s pre-writing life—which he shared with his mysterious, much older wife Cissy Pascal, in the Los Angeles of the 1920s and 30s that represents the terrain of his imagination—that reveals the substance of the writer he would become. read more