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	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)

	Dashiel Hammett
		Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, as the son of Richard Hammett, a farmer and politician.
		Hammettдs mother, Annie Bond Dashiell, was trained a nurse, but was at home most of the time looking after her three children.
		Hammett was first married to nurse Josephine Dolan, whom he met in the Cushman Institutel in the early 1920s.
	www.topmystery.com /authors/DashielHammett.htm (1399 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		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)

	purevolume™ \| Larry Hammett
		Norman, OK Larry Hammett - is the director of guitar studies at the University of Oklahoma.
		Hammett has been teaching guitar at the college level since 1982 and has one of the most successful guitar programs in the country.
		Hammett is one of a very few guitarist today that leads a successful double life both as jazz guitarist and a classical guitarist and is forever pursuing and pushing the boundaries of each.
	www.purevolume.com /larryhammett (234 words)

	American Masters . Dashiell Hammett \| PBS
		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.
		During World War II, at the age of forty-eight, Hammett enlisted as a private in the army.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/hammett_d.html (944 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.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/07/DDG3DB68LD1.DTL (2588 words)

	The Continental Detective Agency - Biography
		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)

	Dashiell Hammett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hammett's short story output, as opposed to his later novels, is very uneven.
		As Hammett's literary style matured, he relied less and less on the super-criminal and turned more to the kind of realistic, hardboiled fiction seen in The Maltese Falcon or The Thin Man.
		In 1931, Hammett embarked on a thirty-year affair with playwright Lillian Hellman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dashiell_Hammett (1173 words)

	Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In September 1929, Hammett portrayed another character in a different narrative form (the first person narration was dropped), Sam Spade, the protagonist of one of the most famous detective stories ever written: The Maltese Falcon.
		Hammett died of lung cancer, penniless, in New York in 1961.
		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.
	www.bastulli.com /Hammett/Hammett.htm (1054 words)

	From "Red Harvest" to "Deadwood" - Salon
		Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," one of the most influential American novels of the 20th century, was published in 1929.
		Rereading Hammett after 20 years is a revelation, and also a minor shock, for any memory of his books has absorbed and been amended by all the Hammett-influenced work that came after he wrote them.
		Hammett never really cared much for writing mystery stories; the mystery as to who killed who in "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man" is pursued with no great urgency, and the murders that kick off the stories only seem to happen because the conventions of period detective fiction demanded them.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2005/02/28/hammett/index.html (1054 words)

	Review \| Vintage Hammett by Dashiell Hammett
		Hammett is virtually synonymous with detective fiction -- he was there right at the beginning, at the ground zero of Black Mask, the seminal pulp magazine of the early 20th century with which his name will always be inexorably linked.
		Hammett spoke of that world in a language his readers understood, a language that was common, honest and direct, with no time for pretense or bullshit -- an American language.
		Hellman and Hammett would engage in an on-again, off-again relationship for the rest of his life, one marked by both great passions and great pain, one fueled by love, lust, literature, politics and alcohol.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/vinthammett.html (2284 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.
		Some of Hammett's early stories are rough — guns are always blazing, because in the Black Mask aesthetic, the reader had to be held with either the threat of action or the action itself.
		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)

	MetroActive Books \| Dashiell Hammett
		Hammett was hired, and the job, which involved more strike-breaking than shadowing waxy characters, gave Hammett a thorough schooling in the streets.
		Hammett's voice, based in the blunt vernacular of the streets, would come to influence generations of writers.
		Hammett moved into the apartment after separating from his wife, and the tiny studio, which now rents for $800 to an architect, is a definite bachelor pad.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/12.20.99/hammett-9949.html (1361 words)

	HAMMETT - DVD
		It does for Dashiell Hammett what Raiders of the Lost Ark did for Flash Gordon, which is to say it reproduces surfaces without a shred of critical distance or analytical incisiveness.
		Forrest's Hammett isn't terribly perturbed when old employer Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle) leads him into a missing-persons case, and though the ensuing hunt for Chinese prostitute Crystal Ling (Lydia Lei) allegedly arouses his moral sense, it really just puts him in autopilot to engage in a conspiracy plot left over from the revisionist '70s.
		Hammett is ultimately a snapshot of Coppola and the movie brats once the American Renaissance had begun to tarnish.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/hammett.htm (905 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 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)

	Dashiell Hammett
		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.
		Hammett's marriage faltered, and he drifted down to Hollywood looking for writing opportunities in the movies.
	www.mysterynet.com /hammett (870 words)

	Dashiell Hammett Summary
		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 Eas...
		Dashiell Hammett is generally credited with bringing a new degree of authenticity as well as artistry to the crime fiction that flourished in the pulp magazines of the first decades of the twentieth century.
	www.bookrags.com /Dashiell_Hammett (400 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Maltese Falcon: Books: Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hammett's style of writing is tight, with all the details, suspense and mystery you're pulled through the entire novel from cover to cover.
		For all of Hammett's ability to rattle readers by throwing basic moral assumptions back in their faces, and for all of his ability to entertain, his writing is rarely perfect.
		Hammett is not a perfect writer but this book is good enough and significant enough to rate an easy five stars.
	www.amazon.ca /Maltese-Falcon-Dashiell-Hammett/dp/1572703644 (3078 words)

	Booked.tv Interactive \| Buy Books by Dashiell Hammett
		Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century’s most influential and entertaining authors.
		Hammett's years of experience as a Pinkerton detective give even his most outlandishly plotted mysteries a gritty credibility.
		Mixing melodramatic panache and poker-faced comedy, his stories are hard-edged entertainment for an era of headlong change and extravagant violence, tracking the devious, nearly nihilistic exploits of con men and flmailers, slumming socialites and deadpan assassins.
	www.booked.tv /html/shop/books/authors/hammett_dashiell.htm (760 words)

	Bleeker Books - Dashiell Hammett
		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)

	Find Churches in Hammett Idaho - FlockFinder.com
		Because of limited resources, most churches in Hammett Idaho have to be selective about which ministries they decide to provide to their congregations.
		Normally, it is the larger churches in Hammett Idaho that have the staff required to create such a specialized ministry.
		Another concern that many churches in Hammett Idaho are mindful of is that a lot of singles have kids, so the church provides a nursery during the service.
	www.flockfinder.com /churches_idaho/hammett/churches_hammett_idaho.html (516 words)

	Dashiell Hammett Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Before Hammett, American detective fiction was in the Sherlock Holmes tradition: gentleman-sleuths, criminals gone barely or rarely bad, logical tales told in elegant sentences.
		On this day in 1951, Dashiell Hammett was sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court, having refused to give testimony before a judge representing the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
		Hammett had little to conceal, but he was determined to offer nothing that might advance the Committee's mission of tracking "the footsteps of Karl Marx" through Hollywood.
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/dashiell.hammett.asp (594 words)

	Kirk Hammett - Uncyclopedia
		As a child, Kirk Hammett was very unruly, and refused to listen to his parents.
		He was often picked on during school because of his gay lisp, and feminine locks, until the eighth grade (by then, all of the bullies had mysteriously disappeared).
		Kirk Hammett met his end in 1992, when the spirit of their former bassist, Cliff Burton, confronted him and demanded to know why Metallica went and decided to suck so much.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Kirk_Hammett (971 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels: Books: Dashiell Hammett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Topics range from the very typical Hammett plot (young woman is missing, wealthy dad pays for her return)of "The Gatewood Caper" to the offbeat noir-Western "Corkscrew" to the looting of an entire island ("The Looting of Couffignal").
		Dashiell Hammett was one of the 20th century's best short story writers, and, apart from "Tulip", which is a curiosity, this is classic Hammett and well worth reading whether you are new to Hammett or already a fan.
		Hammett's most enduring character, the anonymous first-person narrating Continental Op, is the protagonist throughout.
	www.amazon.com /Big-Knockover-Selected-Stories-Novels/dp/0679722599 (2054 words)

	BookClubs.ca \| Author Spotlight: Dashiell Hammett
		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.
		Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=11744 (641 words)

	Dashiell Hammett, page 19 News Page
		Hammett’s granddaughter Julie Rivett sends us this news: “The Maltese Falcon at 75" exhibit will be shown at San Diego's Central Library (820 E Street) from October 3rd through 16th, 2005.
		On display were Hammett’s own typewriter, various first editions, and the original cast-lead falcon that appeared in the 1941 movie, as well as fifty other items, mostly from Richard Layman’s private collection.
		Hammett fan Bill Halvorson tells me that Orson Welles's radio production of Hammett's The Glass Key can be found at http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/ in both MP3 and Real Audio formats.
	www.mikehumbert.com /Dashiell_Hammett_19_News_Page.html (4648 words)

	Dashiell Hammett
		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)

	Amazon.com: Hammett: DVD: R.G. Armstrong,Peter Boyle,Richard Bradford,Michael Chow,Elisha Cook Jr.,Royal Dano,Frederic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Plot Synopsis: The novel writter Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.
		They may not have produced anything that would qualify as classic but "Hammett" is an example of the kind of care and quality in films that Zoetrope strove for.
		Frederic Forrest is outstanding as the boozing but relentless Dashiell Hammett who'll get to the bottom of the film's labyrinthian mystery at the cost of life and limb.
	www.amazon.com /Hammett-R-G-Armstrong/dp/B000AOEMYG (1055 words)

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