Volume 6, Number 3 · March 3, 1966
Dashiell Hammett
By Carlos Baker
In response to Dashiell Hammett: A Memoir (November 25, 1965)
To the Editors:
…I have just caught up with The New York Review for Nov. 25, with [Lillian Hellman's] memoir of Dashiell Hammett. The usual adjective is moving. which I certainly found it to be, but it was also thorough, beautifully written, funny, genuinely tragic, and wonderfully frank and loyal. It's by far the best writing in print about him, and makes a fine portrait-in-depth of a kind too rare in this or any other time.
Carlos Baker
Department of English,
Princeton University