--- Brian Thornton <
tieresias@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Also, while Chandler is cited over and over again
as
> a leading influence in
> Parker's work, I think that Hammett's influence
gets
> overlooked.
I think this probably happens because of what Parker himself
says of his work. I can't quote him precisely, but he's
basically said that his first couple of Spenser novels were
Chandler imitations. When he got stuck wondering what to do
next, he'd ask himself what Marlowe would do, and have
Spenser do that. As far as I know, he's never cited Hammett
as an influence, although his Ph.D. Dissertation was on
"The Big Three," so he certainly knew Hammett's work. The
only other writer he ever cited as influential that I know of
is J.F. Cooper, and even there I don't think he was talking
about his own work so much as the genre in general.
G.
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