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Biography of Dashiell Hammett
Name: Dashiell Hammett
Birth Date: May 27, 1894
Death Date: January 10, 1961
Place of Birth: Maryland, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a seminal figure in the development of the peculiarly American contribution to crime fiction--the hard-boiled detective story.Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born of English and French descendants on May 27, 1894, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the second of three children. His formal education was limited--he attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute for just one year, leaving at the age of 13 to help his father run a small business. He worked in his teens as a newsboy, freight clerk, railroad laborer, messenger boy, and stevedore.From 1915 to 1921 Hammett worked on and off as an operative for the Pinkerton detective agency, serving on the scandalous Fatty Arbuckle rape case and on the 1920-1921 Anaconda copper mine strike. Hammett's Pinkerton tenure, which was to provide the material for much of his fiction, was interrupted several times, first by his brief World War I service as a sergeant in the Motor Ambulance …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…The Thin Man Further Reading The two major biographical sources are Richard Layman's Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett (1981) and Diane Johnson's Dashiell Hammett (1983). A more personal view may be found in Lillian Hellman's four memoirs, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time, An Unfinished Woman, and her introduction to a reprint of some of Hammett's work, The Big Knockover (1972). There is also a lovingly humorous fictional portrait in Joe Gores' parodistic thriller Hammett (1975). Selected writings of Hammett's were compiled into Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 (2001). Hammett's daughter Joesphine wrote a memoir of her father, Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers in 2001.Johnson, Diane, Dashiell Hammett, a life, New York: Random House, 1983. Layman, Richard, Shadow man: the life of Dashiell Hammett, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, 1981. Nolan, William F., Hammett: a life at the edge, New York: Congdon & Weed: distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1983.Symons, Julian, Dashiell Hammett San Diego: Harcourt Braced Jovanovich, 1985.
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