Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960

Download or read book Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 written by Dashiell Hammett and published by Counterpoint. This book was released on 2002-04-25 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.