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Hammett was born near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was De Chiel.
Jul 8, 2024 · Dashiell Hammett was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. (See detective story; hard-boiled fiction). Hammett left school at 13 and worked at a variety of low-paying jobs before working eight years as a detective for the Pinkerton agency.
Feb 3, 2002 · At a party in Hollywood in the spring of 1935, Dashiell Hammett was asked by Gertrude Stein to solve a literary mystery.
Aug 10, 2022 · There are two godfathers of modern crime writing, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. For my money Hammett was the better writer. Even if Chandler had the gaudier patter.
Sep 14, 2018 · In The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, Nathan Ward considers “exactly how he made his famous transformation from Pinkerton operative to master of the American detective story.” Why is equally important.
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.
Jan 31, 2021 · Hammett served honorably in both world wars, a disillusioned former Pinkerton, and a political activist ruined in the anti-red witch hunts of the 1950s – in the end, he was a hero ostracized by society, yet still buried at with full military honors at Arlington.
Complete order of Dashiell Hammett books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
Dashiell Hammett has 526 books on Goodreads with 433977 ratings. Dashiell Hammett’s most popular book is The Maltese Falcon.
Dec 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.
