This author described his most famous character as "a complete man and a common man" in an essay that begins with the line "fiction in any form has always intended to be reali
This author described his most famous character as "a complete man and a common man" in an essay that begins with the line "fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." In one of his novels, the protagonist finds a woman passed out naked in front of a camera in a house owned by Arthur Geiger. Another of his novels ends with the discovery that Terry Lennox has fled to Mexico and received plastic surgery. This author of "The Simple Art of Murder" wrote a novel that begins with General Sternwood asking the protagonist to take up a blackmail case. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about detective Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye and The Big Sleep.