American detective fiction author and screenwriter.. Samuel Dashiell Hammett has been credited with inventing the hard-boiled detective story. He has also been noted for his refusal to "name names" before a federal judge in 1951, during the height of McCarthyism. Born in Maryland, Hammett in 1900 moved with his family to Philadelphia and then one year later to Baltimore. It was there that Hammett was reared and received what formal education he was able to obtain. In 1908, he withdrew from... więcej

Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.