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Richard Rayner

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December 15, 1955 in Bradford, England, The United Kingdom

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Richard Rayner is a British author who now lives in Los Angeles. He was born on December 15, 1955 in the northern city of Bradford. Rayner attended schools in Yorkshire and Wales before studying philosophy and law at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as an editor at Time Out Magazine, in London, and later on the literary magazine Granta, then based in Cambridge.

Rayner is the author of nine books. His first, Los Angeles Without A Map, was published in 1988. Part-fiction, part-travelogue, this was turned into a movie L.A. Without a Map (for which Rayner co-wrote the screenplay with director Mika Kaurismaki) starring David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, and, in an uncredited part, Johnny Depp.
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Average rating: 3.57 · 432 ratings · 102 reviews · 15 distinct works

	A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age 3.57 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Cloud Sketcher: A Novel 3.73 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California 3.43 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Blue Suit 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Los Angeles Without A Map 3.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Devil's Wind 3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Murder Book 3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Elephant 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Der Wolkenfänger. 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:

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“He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.”
― Richard Rayner, The Cloud Sketcher: A Novel

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