Dashiell Hammett
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican writer (1894-1961)
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Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the characters he created are Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op and the comic strip character Secret Agent X-9.
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![Building at 891 Post Street, San Francisco, where Hammett lived while writing The Maltese Falcon: The character Sam Spade may have also lived in the building.[20][21]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Spades_House_891_Post_st_a.JPG/1280px-Spades_House_891_Post_st_a.JPG)
Building at 891 Post Street, San Francisco, where Hammett lived while writing The Maltese Falcon: The character Sam Spade may have also lived in the building.[20][21]
Lillian Hellman in 1935
Photo portrait of Hammett from the cover of his final novel, The Thin Man (1934)
Hammett's grave, in Arlington National Cemetery, (section 12, site 508)
November 1927 issue of Black Mask, featuring "The Cleansing of Poisonville"
March 1930 issue of Black Mask magazine, featuring Hammett's The Glass KeyIn their orbit 1
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1961 · aged 66
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31 languages
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