![]() For refusing, he was sentenced to five months in a federal prison. courts information about other Communist party members that could have led to their arrest or harassment. A determined anti-fascist, he was a member of the Communist Party USA and, after pulling strings to serve again in WWII (despite the injuries he incurred fighting in the first World War), he refused to provide the U.S. He ceased writing after 1934 and focused instead on political activism. ![]() His first story was published in 1922, and in the twelve years that followed he wrote numerous novels, screenplays, and short stories, and in many ways his writing, with its hard-boiled authenticity, established the genre of the noir detective novel. After serving as a sergeant in WWI and returning to the Pinkerton’s for a while after that, he began his career as a writer. ![]() ![]() Raised in Philadelphia and Baltimore, Dashiell Hammett left school at the age of fourteen and held several jobs before becoming an operative for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1915. ![]()
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