Donald Hamilton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Donald Hamilton

American writer

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1916

Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Date of Death: 20-Nov-2006

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American 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 (1960-1993), 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."