| Dashiell Hammett  AKA Samuel Dashiell Hammett
Born: 27-May-1894
Birthplace: St. Mary's County, MD
Died: 10-Jan-1961
Location of death: Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - Lung
Remains: Buried, Arlington National Cemetery
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Maltese Falcon Military service: US Army (Ambulance Corps, June 1918, three years in WWII) Hammett worked for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency in Baltimore. Thrown in prison for several months in 1951 when he refused to be a snitch during the McCarthy hearings. During his final years he resided at Lillian Hellman's apartment, dying penniless in 1961. Father: Richard Hammett (farmer, politician)
Mother: Annie Bond Dashiell (nurse)
Wife: Josephine Annas Dolan (m. 1920, div. 1937)
Daughter: Josephine Hammett ("Jo")
Girlfriend: Lillian Hellman (dated 1930 until his death)
High School: Baltimore Polytechnical Institute
Communist Party USA 1937
Took the Fifth (9-Jul-1951)
Contempt of Court 1951
Contempt of Congress 1951
Risk Factors: Alcoholism
Is the subject of books:
Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett, 1981, BY: Richard Layman
Author of books:
Red Harvest (1929, novel)
The Dain Curse (1929, novel)
The Continental Op (1930, short stories)
The Maltese Falcon (1930, novel)
The Glass Key (1931, novel)
The Thin Man (1934, novel)
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