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Dashiell Hammett: A Life

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    …Lives (1972), and the biography Dashiell Hammett: A Life (1983). She also wrote screenplays, including The Shining (1980; with Stanley Kubrick); a collection of essays, Terrorists and Novelists (1982); and Into a Paris Quartier (2005), about Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood. The memoir Flyover Lives was published in 2014.

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