Donald Hamilton
Writer, Author
1916 – 2006
Who was Donald Hamilton?
Donald Bengtsson Hamilton was a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction but also crime fiction and Westerns such as The Big Country. He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series, which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: "Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and probably as close to the sordid truth of espionage, as any now being told."
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- Born
- Mar 24, 1916
Uppsala - Also known as
- Donald Bengtsson Hamilton
- Parents
- Spouses
- Kathleen Hamilton
(1941 - 1990)
- Kathleen Hamilton
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Lived in
- Santa Fe
- Died
- Nov 20, 2006
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on July 23, 2013
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