Dashiell Hammett

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-05-27 (67 years old)

Deathday

1961-01-10

Place of Birth

Saint Mary's County, Maryland, USA

Dashiell Hammett

Biography

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring 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 comic strip character Secret Agent X-9. Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harves...

Production

2002

No Good Deed

as Novel

1934

The Thin Man

as Novel

1936

1931

1931

City Streets

as Story

1936

1944

1939

1941

1947

1935

1942

1943

Watch on the Rhine

as Screenplay

1930

1935

1934

Woman in the Dark

as Short Story

1975

Nick and Nora

as Characters

1945

Secret Agent X-9

as Characters

1937

Secret Agent X-9

as Characters

1941

1975

The Black Bird

as Characters

1986

The Gang

as Adaptation

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