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	Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of "hard-boiled" detective novels and short stories.
		Hammett's first story published in Black Mask was "The Road Home" under the pseudonym of Peter Collinson in December 1922.
		In 1931, Hammett embarked on a thirty-year affair with playwright Lillian Hellman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dashiell_Hammett (839 words)

	Dashiell Hammett
		Hammett was not content to be merely a straightforward purveyor of realistic investigations in the Croftsian manner, although this continued to be an important element of his writing.
		Hammett's skill with plotting is in the tradition of popular fiction in general, and Golden Age mystery fiction in particular.
		Hammett does not explicitly ascribe any cause to the girlfriend's lack of emotion in "Women"; my linking it to her casualness in sexuality might be an effect, not a cause, of her loss.
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	The Continental Detective Agency - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born on May 27, 1894 in a small town in Maryland, the son of Richard Hammett a farmer and local politician with a reputation for enjoying wine and women - traits which his son would inherit.
		Initially Hammett tried to continue detecting work with the local Pinkerton Office (and during this spell was believed to have worked on the Fatty Arbuckle rape trial) but by early 1922 his continual battle with TB became too much and a he resigned for the last time.
		Hammett's death forced a re-evaluation of his career and commencing with a complimentary editorial in the New York Times he became a respectable figure and his influence on the Detective Fiction genre began to be appreciated.
	www.transki.freeserve.co.uk /biog.htm (1992 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dashiell Hammett (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Dashiell Hammett[dushEl´] Pronunciation Key, 1894–1961, American writer, b.
		After a variety of jobs, including several years working as a detective for the Pinkerton agency, beginning in the early 1920s he found success as a writer, largely originating the "hard-boiled" school of detective fiction.
		He was the creator of Nick Charles and Sam Spade, the latter being the original tough "private eye." Hammett's novels The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Glass Key (1931), and The Thin Man (1932), are considered classics of the genre; all were made into successful movies.
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	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hammett, then fifteen, worked first as a messenger boy, then as a freight clerk, later as a stevedore, a timekeeper and a yardman for a railroad, but he never held a job long.
		Hammett shrugged nonchalantly and the boss relented: "Give me your word it won't happen again." But Hammett declined, figuring he would be late again and not wanting to break his word because of fate.
		Hammett also recounted his role in the arrest of Nicky Arnstein, whose theft of $1.5 million in bonds from a New York brokerage was a national story, but discrepancies in geography and time make it seem unlikely.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Hammett.HTM (3518 words)

	Dashiell Hammett, page 01 A short biography
		Hammett soon became a favorite with the readers, but his paychecks were miniscule; the pulp magazines of the day paid about a penny a word.
		Hammett’s work sold well, but in the context of “detective novels,” which were then considered inferior to “real literature.” The critical success of Falcon helped to erase that stigma.
		Ironically, it was during this period that Hammett was at the height of his fame as a writer, despite the fact that he wasn’t writing much of anything.
	www.mikehumbert.com /Dashiell_Hammett_01_Short_Bio.html (1359 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Samuel (Dashiell) Hammet is probably the first hard-boiled writer and as such must be placed on a par with the most important fathers of the mystery/detective fiction genre.
		Hammett's tale of one man's search for order and truth is as close to a perfect mystery novel as anyone is going to get, and often rises above the genre as a tightly-constructed literary masterpiece, rich in both character and plot.
		Dashiell Hammett's tour de force of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crispness.
	www.bastulli.com /Hammett/Hammett.htm (1054 words)

	American Masters . Dashiell Hammett \| PBS
		Hammett spent his early twenties working as a detective in San Francisco before enlisting in the army during World War I. He became a sergeant in the Motor Ambulance Corp, where he contracted tuberculosis.
		During World War II, at the age of forty-eight, Hammett enlisted as a private in the army.
		When they jumped bail, Hammett was jailed for refusing to give the names of the sources of the bail money.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/hammett_d.html (944 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Dain Curse is a novel written by Dashiell Hammett and published in 1929.
		ashiell Hammett was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1894.
		Hammett followed THE MALTESE FALCON a year later with THE GLASS KEY, a story of political intrigue focused on the social relations of the rich and the corruption of power.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dashiell-Hammett (481 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Dashiell Hammett: A Memoir
		Hammett had had self diagnosed rheumatism in the right arm and had always said that was why he had given up hunting.
		Hammett said he didn't need, didn't want, but finally agreed to talk to because it might make me feel better, came back from West Street jail with a message from Hammett the lawyer had written on the back of an old envelope.
		Hammett and the boy spent the afternoon with the crossbow and the child's face was awful when he had to leave it.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/12676 (5958 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hammett's greatest skill was his combination of terse presentation, witty dialogue, and a plain style, which is why literary critics put him in the school of Hemingway.
		This is Hammett's intent, of course, showing the onion-skin complexity of human behavior, and the fact that good is often achieved by evil intentions and vice versa.
		It was Hammett's last novel; apparently he had burned out as a serious writer, although he went on to work on movie scripts in Hollywood and help out Lillian Hellman with her plays.
	www.mysterylist.com /hammett.htm (2714 words)

	Dashiell Hammett's legacy lies not only in his writing, but in his living -- rough, wild and on the edge
		With his brains and quiet competence, Hammett was promoted and trained in the stealthy trade of the private eye by James Wright, a squat little man on whom he based the Continental Op, the dogged detective of his early stories.
		Hammett edited many of her plays (and wrote the screenplay for the 1943 movie version of her "Watch on the Rhine''), but couldn't finish the mainstream novels he labored at for decades.
		Hammett was president of the Civil Rights Congress, which fought against the lynching of fls and defended Communist Party members charged with violating the Smith Act, the 1940 alien-registration law aimed at people accused of advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government.
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	Vintage Crime/ Black Lizard
		Dashiell Samuel Hammett was born in St. Mary’s County.
		Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several kinds of jobs thereafter—messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, operator, and stevedore, finally becoming an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency.
		Hammett’s later life was marked in part by ill health, alcoholism, a period of imprisonment related to his alleged membership in the Communist Party, and by his long-time companion, the author Lillian Hellman, with whom he had a very volatile relationship.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/blacklizard/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=11744 (776 words)

	Feature \| Dashiell Hammett: Let's Talk About the Black Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.
		Pegged as a crackerjack, Hammett worked the case of a stolen Ferris wheel, investigated con men and gathered evidence for the defense of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, a silent-movie fun-maker (famous for his pie-throwing buffoonery), who was accused in 1921 of raping and killing a 25-year-old actress at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel.
		Given the reputation Dashiell Hammett now enjoys as a writer of spare but powerful prose, his stories impressively infused with realism, irony and characters not conveniently separated into "good" or "evil," it's remarkable to recall that he produced only five novels (just two fewer than Chandler turned out over his career).
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/hammettintro.html (1852 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Joan Mellen
		Hammett's career as a writer was nearly over by the time he met Hellman in 1930, which is when the literary portion of Hellman's career and the interesting part of Hammett's life begin.
		(Hammett married Jose out of loyalty; she had taken care of him when he was sick with tuberculosis.) But Josephine had to wait 30 years to receive her inheritance from Hammett: Hellman had appropriated the money.
		Mellen shrewdly observes that "Hammett's aversion to introspection made him unsuited to transcend the detective genre," though she is wrong, as many are, in continuing to label him as a "mystery" writer.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.18.96/books-9629.html (1069 words)

	The Maltese Falcon FAQ version 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Interestingly, after Hammett had stopped writing (in the mid 1930s), he re-enlisted (in 1942) and spent his time on Adak, in the bleak Aleutian island chain, he dropped the 'Dashiell' and was known again as Sam Hammett.
		Hammett recollected, in the Introduction to the 1934 edition of TMF that Caspar Gutman was based upon 'someone suspected of being a German secret agent' whom he had shadowed in Washington while working as a Pinkerton operative.
		NB: Richard Layman's Dashiell Hammett: A Bibliography, records that the lines 'With a new Introduction by the Author' appear only in the 1934 edition of the novel (ie Hammett's recollections of his Pinkerton day and his description of the influences on the character in TMF are to be found only in the 1934 edition).
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	The Dashiell Hammett tour - hosted by Don Herron
		During this walk you'll see the buildings where Hammett wrote his most famous stories and the majority of locales from his classic novel, The Maltese Falcon.
		Follow Hammett himself as he works for the Pinkerton Detective Agency on the infamous Fatty Arbuckle case.
		Hammett tours may be given by appointment as well, e-mail for arrangements.
	www.donherron.com /tour.html (353 words)

	Samuel Dashiell Hammett, Sergeant, United States Army
		Hammett's prose was compared favorably to Hemingway's, and it was reported in the press, circa 1930, that Dashiell Hammett was a contender for the Nobel Prize.
		Hammett spent the last 10 years of his life being nursed by Hellman on her small farm.
		Hammett wasn't the first realist in crime fiction, but he was the first to bring it up to the level of violent art.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /shammett.htm (5346 words)

	Dashiell Hammett
		Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) is recognized as the first master of hard-boiled detective fiction.
		Hammett wrote more than 80 short stories and five novels: "Red Harvest" (1929), "The Dain Curse" (1929), "The Maltese Falcon" (1930), "The Glass Key" (1931) and "The Thin Man" (1934).
		Hammett recreated the violent atmosphere of Butte in Red Harvest's fictional city of Poisonville.
	www.mysterynet.com /hammett (870 words)

	Bleeker Books - Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dashiell Hammett was the first great writer of the hardboiled school.
		Hammett was himself a Pinkerton detective for many years before becoming a writer.
		Hammett pioneered both a taut, spare prose style and a hero who is coldly dispassionate, who possesses violence but also discipline, who bends to no will but his own.
	www.bleekerbooks.com /Books/Authors/Author.asp?ID=43 (371 words)

	Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961] at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
		By the time Lillian met Dashiell Hammett in 1930, she was unhappy in her marriage, and she & Arthur were divorced in 1931.
		But like Hammett, she was forced to appear before H.U.A.C., which was followed by a $174,000 tax bill and vilification in the press.
		Though her later relationship with Hammett was rocky, she took care of him in the months before his death from cancer in January 1961.
	www.genordell.com /stores/blackhat/Hammett.htm (1825 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For a writer who turned out only five novels, Dashiell Hammett made a strong and lasting impression on the twentieth century and is considered one of the founding fathers of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction,; a tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing.
		Of the several dozen stories Hammett wrote for the pulp, nearly thirty were about the Continental Op,; and the fat private eye also figured in his first two novels.
		Hammett's literary reputation slipped during the 1930s and early 1940s, despite the branching out of his characters into movies and radio.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200512 (1003 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1930 Hammett met Lillian Hellman and over the next few years the couple became involved in the campaign against the growth of fascism in Europe.
		Hammett agreed to talk about his own involvement with radical groups, but was unwilling to give names of his comrades.
		Dashiell Hammett died in New York City on 10th January, 1961.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhammett.htm (246 words)

	Salon.com Books \| From "Red Harvest" to "Deadwood"
		How Dashiell Hammett's first and most important novel eluded film adaptation and still managed to find its way onto the big -- and small -- screen.
		The retrospective featured seven films based on Hammett’s books (including an early version of "The Maltese Falcon," 1936's "Satan Met a Lady" with Bette Davis), derived from Hammett’s characters (such as the surprisingly good "Another Thin Man," 1939) or scripted by Hammett itself ("Watch on The Rhine," 1943, with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas).
		Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," one of the most influential American novels of the 20th century, was published in 1929.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2005/02/28/hammett (288 words)

	Hammett, Dashiell at The Vintage Library
		Hammett used his first hand knowledge of the detective buisness to create complex and exciting plots and memorable and believable characters.
		Dashiell Hammett's greatest stories that aired on the radio, including The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and "Two Sharp Knives".
		Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives.
	www.vintagelibrary.com /cat.cfm?catId=119&sort=1& (224 words)

	Authors and Creators: Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, on May 27th, 1894, and died January 10, 1961, in New York, New York.
		Hammett left the Pinkertons in 1918, and enlisted in the Army, but tuberculosis contracted while in service prompted his medical discharge less than a year later.
		Hammett's Continental Op eventually appeared in over three dozen stories, some of which formed the basis for the novels Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, were both published in 1929.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/hammett.html (3601 words)

	Major Works: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hammett's first novel features the nameless detective employed by the Continental Detective Agency, and hence called the "Continental Op." Developed in Black Mask, he became an archetype in the genre.
		The "stir-it-up" approach prevails in Hammett's first novel, which emphasizes brilliant scenes, a traditional first-person narrator, dialogue that is funny, and action that is highly stylized, rather than plausible plotting or characterization.
		Hammett liked to insert such sequences two-thirds of the way through his novels; usually these "embedded plots" reveal the protagonist's psyche.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Redharvest.html (1045 words)

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