Biography
Dashiell Hammett was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was born Samuel Dashiell Hammett on 27 May 1894 in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, and died on 10 January 1961.
His novels were adapted into the films The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Thin Man (1934). He also wrote the screenplay for Watch on the Rhine (1943). Hammett created characters including private detective Sam Spade and the couple Nick and Nora Charles.
