70 Year Magazine Archive

Books, Arts & Manners: Playing the Sap

by Terry Teachout

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Dashiell Hammett: A Life, by Diane Johnson

Random House, 344 pp., $17.95 Hammett: A Life at the Edge, by William F. Nolan

Terry Teachout

About the Author

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.

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