Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960A selection from the letters of Dashiell Hammett, the American writer of crime fiction. Here is Hammett the family man, distant but devoted; Hammett the student of politics, scanning the headlines from a Marxist perspective; and Hammett the lover of Lillian Hellman, delighting in her style, humour, accomplishments, but maintaining his independence. Celebrity, soldier, activist, survivor--these letters show how Hammett was each of these in turn, but was always, above all, a writer. |
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WRITER 19211930 I | 1 |
CELEBRITY 19311942 | 57 |
SOLDIER 19421945 | 179 |
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