Dashiell Hammett
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John Farr: It's Thanksgiving, Let's Party!: Ten Films For The Coming Weeks...which follows (between cocktails) keeps the viewer guessing right up to its suspenseful conclusion. W.S. Van Dyke's filming of Dashiell Hammett's saucy detective novel features the second inspired teaming of Oscar-nominated Powell and Loy... In this article: Annie Hall, Spencer Tracy, Thanksgiving, Woody Allen, Charles Coburn, and Dustin Hoffman |
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Entertainment Weekly | 2 days ago
'Sons of Anarchy' recap: 'God wants me to be a fierce mother'
...this is one of the most important codes of behavior, and Kurt Sutter and his writers are working territory that novelists from Dashiell Hammett to Jim Thompson to Ross Macdonald kept vibrantly alive. Sons of Anarchy is working in this great...
In this article: Sons of Anarchy, God, Kurt Sutter, Henry Rollins, White supremacy, Jim Thompson, and Ross Macdonald
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San Francisco Chronicle | November 06, 2009
Review: 'Gentlemen Broncos' plodding, unfunny
...channeled through the mind of the pretentious writer. The sequences are equally excruciating, whatever they represent. Dashiell Hammett once said that it's a dangerous thing for a writer to realize he has a style. Hess has made three...
In this article: Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite, Michael Angarano, Jennifer Coolidge, and San Francisco Chronicle
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SFGate: Entertainment | November 03, 2009
'Dancing in the Dark,' by Morris Dickstein
...echoes of that decade. Other authors may see events and people he doesn't describe, or doesn't discuss at length - Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler - but Dickstein encompasses the full spectrum of creative energies in the 1930s,...
In this article: Richard Wright, Communism, Jonah Raskin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, New York, Capitalism, and Class struggle
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PR Newswire: Multicultural News | October 29, 2009
L. Ron Hubbard Pulp Fiction Classics From 20s and 30s Wow Seniors at AARP National Convention
Like other great pulp writers that included names such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett, Hubbard rapidly became a mainstay of popular fiction in the 20th century. However, Hubbard was...
In this article: L. Ron Hubbard, AARP, Pulp Fiction, National Convention, Las Vegas, JibJab.com, American Association, Accelerated Reader, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Agatha Christie
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Times Online | October 28, 2009
Oxford English
...by Bill Cardoso. The entry on the "hardboiled" style of crime fiction provides the name of only one of its practitioners, Dashiell Hammett, and does not mention that it was pioneered by Carroll John Daly. Brevity can contract into...
In this article: Hermione Lee, Oxford English, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suicide, Richard Carew, and Carroll John Daly
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Metro | October 27, 2009
Talking About Detective Fiction solves nothing
...Golden Age crime writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, despite the more obvious appeal of their US contemporaries Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Beginning with detective fiction's concurrent emergence with the first...
In this article: PD James, Miss Marple, Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, and US
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories | October 19, 2009
Celebrating New York's Grandest Hotel
...both from the international world-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to Russian President Boris Yeltsin-and the literary, including Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Wolfe, and Terrence McNally. Mary Tyler Moore...
In this article: New York City, The Pierre, The Daily Beast, Boston, Champagne, and Bankruptcy
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San Diego Union-Tribune | October 13, 2009
Obituaries in the news
...Hospital confirmed his death Friday. His son, Peter Kaminsky, told the newspaper that the author grew up reading Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and began writing himself as a boy. He published his first novel, "Bullet...
In this article: Stuart Kaminsky, St. Louis., Suicide, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, World War II, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Cerebral palsy
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | October 13, 2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky, prolific mystery writer, dies
...for the transplant, said his son, Peter Kaminsky. Born in Chicago, Mr. Kaminsky grew up reading detective writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and started writing himself when he was just 10 or 11, Peter Kaminsky said.
In this article: Stuart M. Kaminsky, St. Louis, Hepatitis, Stroke, Northwestern University, Florida State University, Chicago, and Aurora
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washingtonpost.com | October 11, 2009
Review of Arnaldur Indridason's 'Arctic Chill'
...by Bernard Scudder and Victoria Cribb Minotaur. 344 pp. $24.99 The modern American crime novel was launched in 1930 when Dashiell Hammett introduced the private investigator Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon." Other notable private eyes...
In this article: Arnaldur Indridason, Arctic Chill, 87th Precinct, and Ford Falcon
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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".
- Name At Birth:
- Samuel Dashiell Hammett
- Birth Date:
- May 27, 1894
- Birthplace:
- Saint Mary's County, Maryland
- Death Date:
- January 10, 1961
- Place of Death:
- New York City, New York
- Nationality:
- United States
- Occupation:
- Novelist
- Influenced:
- Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, Lawrence Block, James Ellroy, Sue Grafton, Walter Mosley, William Gibson, Rian Johnson, Richard K. Morgan
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