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
Also known As
Дэшил Хэммет
Сэмюэл Дэшилл Хэммет
Samuel Dashiell Hammett
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...
2002
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1934
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1936
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1931
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1931
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1936
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1944
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1939
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1947
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1935
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1942
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1943
as Screenplay
1930
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1934
as Short Story
1975
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1945
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1937
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1941
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1975
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1978
as Novel
1981
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1986
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