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.
[1] Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City.
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
Hollywood Anti-Fascist League
League of American Writers
Took the Fifth (9-Jul-1951)
Contempt of Court 1951
Contempt of Congress 1951
McCarthy Hearings 1953
Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Tuberculosis
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)
AKA Samuel Dashiell Hammett