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Samuel Dashiell Hammett (/ ˈdæʃəl ˈhæmɪt / DASH-əl HAM-it; [2] – ) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), The Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) and the ...
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Dashiell Hammett was an American writer who created the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. His books include The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934), and his famous characters include Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles.
Dashiell Hammett was born , in St. Mary's County, Maryland, to Richard Hammett and Mary Bond. He joined the Baltimore branch of the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1915. He enlisted in the US Army's Ambulance Corps in June 1918 and was posted to a camp 20 miles from Baltimore, where he caught the flu, which developed into tuberculosis.
Few early twentieth-century authors of crime and detective fiction are as well remembered today as Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961): author of The Maltese Falcon, supposed inventor of the hard-boiled detective genre, alcoholic and serial adulterer, not-so-secret lover of the playwright Lillian Hellman, and (depending upon your political persuasion) Communist activist or martyr to liberal ...