Dashiell Hammett Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Dashiell Hammett.

Download the Study Guide

4 Biographies
1 Encyclopedia Article
12 Literature Criticisms
...and more

Study Pack

The Dashiell Hammett Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Hammett, Dashiell (1894-1961)

1,102 words, approx. 4 pages

Hammett, Dashiell (1894-1961) For a writer who turned out only five novels, Dashiell Hammett made a strong and lasting impression on the twentieth century and is considered one of the founding fathers... Read more

Biographies (4)

Dashiell Hammett

1,743 words, approx. 6 pages

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was a seminal figure in the development of the peculiarly American contribution to crime fiction--the hard-boiled detective story.Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born of Engli... Read more

Dashiell Hammett

5,854 words, approx. 20 pages

"I'm one of the few--if there are any more--people moderately literate who take the detective story seriously," Dashiell Hammett wrote to his publisher in 1928 at the beginning of his novel-writing ca... Read more

Dashiell Hammett

6,912 words, approx. 24 pages

Biography EssayIn March 1928, just after Dashiell Hammett had submitted his first novel for publication, he wrote to his editor, Blanche Knopf, that unlike most moderately literate people, he took det... Read more

(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett

13,171 words, approx. 44 pages

Dashiell Hammett is generally credited with bringing a new degree of authenticity as well as artistry to the crime fiction that flourished in the pulp magazines of the first decades of the twentieth c... Read more