DASHIELL HAMMETT
Dashiell Hammett
Born May 27, 1894
Saint Mary's County, Maryland
Died January 10, 1961 (aged 66)
New York City, New York
Occupation Novelist
Nationality United States
Writing period 1929 - 1951
Genres Hardboiled crime fiction,
detective fiction
Debut works The Parthian Shot (1922), story
Red Harvest (1929), novel
Influenced Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald,
John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, James Ellroy, Sue Grafton,
Walter Mosley, William Gibson, Rian Johnson, Richard K. Morgan
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961) was an American author
of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters
he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin
Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to
the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now
widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was
called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled'
school of detective fiction".
Hammett died in New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital, of lung cancer, diagnosed
just two months before his death. As a veteran of two World Wars, he was buried
at Arlington National Cemetery.
Dashiell Hammett
Born May 27, 1894
Saint Mary's County, Maryland
Died January 10, 1961 (aged 66)
New York City, New York
Occupation Novelist
Nationality United States
Writing period 1929 - 1951
Genres Hardboiled crime fiction,
detective fiction
Debut works The Parthian Shot (1922), story
Red Harvest (1929), novel
Influenced Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald,
John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, James Ellroy, Sue Grafton,
Walter Mosley, William Gibson, Rian Johnson, Richard K. Morgan
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 - January 10, 1961) was an American author
of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters
he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin
Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). In addition to
the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now
widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was
called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled'
school of detective fiction".
Hammett died in New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital, of lung cancer, diagnosed
just two months before his death. As a veteran of two World Wars, he was buried
at Arlington National Cemetery.