Dashiell Hammett

...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

...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

...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

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

...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

...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

...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...

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...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

...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

...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...

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