After the war he was imprisoned for not helping out in the McCarthy witch hunt in the 1950s and it was during his imprisonment in West Virginia that his health deteriorated. Dashiell was a communist, Sam was a patriot.ĭuring World War II he edited an Army newspaper entitled The Adakian and served as a sergeant in the Aleutian Islands. Because of his name being Samuel not Dashiell, he was able to skirt around the fact that he was in the communist party. But even though he was a known communist he was able to serve in World War II. This would eventually get him blacklisted during the Red Scare. Samuel Hammett was also a political activist and in 1937 he joined the Communist party. – Raymond Chandler Post World War II and the Blacklist He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before. He was spare, frugal, hard-boiled, but he did over and over again what only the best writers can ever do at all. Hammett was the ace performer… He is said to have lacked heart yet the story he himself thought the most of, The Glass Key, is the record of a man’s devotion to a friend. Here’s what his counterpart, Raymond Chandler said about Hammett: The Coen brothers utilize not only Red Harvest but other story elements from Hammett novels and short stories in their films especially Blood Simple and Miller’s Crossing. Red Harvest his first novel has influenced more than just Papa Hemingway.
It was Hammett’s first Continental Op story in October of 1923 in Black Mask, not Hemingway’s In Our Time that was published first. But, Dashiell Hammett arguably influenced Hemingway. The 1920’s was a time of change, where the verbose style of the Victorian era writers gave way to the concise writers of the 1920s like the aforementioned Ernest Hemingway.
The Continental Op and Sam Spadeīut it was his writing, not his sleuthing that he will forever be remembered for.
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Both Ernest Hemingway and Walt Disney also served as ambulance drivers during WWI, which I just find interesting and worth noting. But most of his time during the first world war was in a hospital in Washington state far from the front lines due to his tuberculosis. It was during that time that he took a leave of absence from the Pinks to fight in WWI, in the Army’s Motor Ambulance Corps. Hammett left school when he was 13 years old, taking odd jobs here and there until he eventually joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency from 1915 to 1922. Mary’s County, Maryland but his childhood was primarily in Philadelphia and Baltimore. of Motor Vehicles), Hammett was born in St.
Sam “not Dash if you’re a real friend” HammettĪ product of the D.M.V.
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