Owen Hill

OWEN HILL is the co-annotator and editor of the new annotated edition of Raymond Chandler's classic novel The Big Sleep. The Washington Post called the Annotated Big Sleep "fascinating and essential" and Time Magazine referred to TABS as "a wonderful recent volume".

He is also the author of two mystery novels, a book of short fiction, and several books of poetry including A Walk Among the Bogus (Lavender Ink, 2014). He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency at Yaddo. He is co-editor (with Jerry Thompson) Berkeley Noir for Akashic Press. A memoir, Hands on a Mirror, is available from Bootstrap Press.

The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story is an omnibus that includes three novels and a short story, introduced by Jonathan Lethem. It is forthcoming from PM Press, spring of 2025.

“The mystery is real, the stakes are high; some people make it through while others . . . well, let’s just say they’re compromised. Here we have the essence of noir, a sense of life lived at the edges, which is, come to think of it, a pretty good description of Clay’s world.”

—David Ulin, Los Angeles Times, on The Incredible Double