https://padlet.com/812958/voereo8vtdzz en-us 2017-01-12 17:55:09 UTC 2024-11-13 10:53:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png 812958 https://padlet.com/812958/voereo8vtdzz/wish/146876112  An American writer of hard-boiled crime fiction, including the novels The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. 

Trouble with the law involving Hammett's communist associates led him to serve a six-month jail sentence, after which the IRS came after him for $100,000 in back taxes and garnished his future earnings.


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because he was suspected to be a communist.
He joined the Communist party

]]> 2017-01-12 18:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/812958/voereo8vtdzz/wish/146877730 812958 https://padlet.com/812958/voereo8vtdzz/wish/146883946 2017-01-12 18:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/812958/voereo8vtdzz/wish/146883946 812958 https://padlet.com/812958/voereo8vtdzz/wish/146888855  An American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism.


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