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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ ˌ d æ ʃ iː l ˈ h æ m ɪ t /; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist.
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- 1929–1951
- American
- Crime and detective fiction
Notable Works: “Red Harvest”. “The Maltese Falcon”. “The Thin Man”. Dashiell Hammett (born May 27, 1894, St. Mary’s County, Md., U.S.—died Jan. 10, 1961, New York City) was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. ( See detective story; hard-boiled fiction ).
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Dec 30, 2003 · About Dashiell Hammett. December 30, 2003. Dashiell Hammett was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1894. The second of three children, he dropped out of school at the age of thirteen....
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Publication Order of Anthologies. Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of Hard Boiled Detective fiction. He can even be considered a pioneer in the genre as it has influenced many in the genre especially writers like Raymond Chandler.
Feb 3, 2002 · Tough Guy. The mystery of Dashiell Hammett. By Claudia Roth Pierpont. February 3, 2002. In the twenties, Hammett, like Hemingway and Fitzgerald, sought a unique language to express a unique...
- Claudia Roth Pierpont
Mar 8, 2011 · Talk Of The Town Again: Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman hold down a table at the 21 Club on New Year's Eve 1944. Hammett, who died in January 1961, gets yet another mystery-magazine byline...
Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett. Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934). Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories.
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