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Donald Hamilton (Donald Bengtsson Hamilton) was born on 24 March, 1916 in Uppsala, Sweden, is an American novelist and writer. Discover Donald Hamilton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As Donald Bengtsson Hamilton
Occupation Novelist, writer
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 24 March 1916
Birthday 24 March
Birthplace Uppsala, Sweden
Date of death 20 November, 2006
Died Place United States
Nationality Sweden

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His wife is Kathleen Hamilton (m. 1941–1990)

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Children Victoria Hamilton, Gordon Hamilton, Elise Hamilton, Hugo Hamilton

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1916

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.

Hamilton was born on March 24, 1916, in Uppsala, Sweden, to Dr. Bengt Leopold Knutsson Hamilton and Elise Franzisca Hamilton (née Neovius).

1924

On September 27, 1924, he boarded the S/S Stockholm with his mother and three sisters at the Port of Gothenburg, Sweden; the ship arrived at the Port of New York on October 6, 1924.

The family's destination was Boston, Massachusetts, where they joined his father, Doctor Hamilton.

1938

Donald attended the University of Chicago (receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1938), and served in the United States Navy Reserve during World War II as a chemist with the rank of Lieutenant.

A long-time resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hamilton was a skilled outdoorsman and hunter who wrote non-fiction articles for outdoor magazines and published a book-length collection of them.

1941

He was married to Kathleen Hamilton (née Stick) from 1941 until her death in 1989.

The couple had four children: Hugo, Elise, Gordon, and Victoria Hamilton.

Matt Helm series

Other crime novels

Short stories

Westerns

Non-fiction

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1946

Hamilton began his writing career in 1946, submitting pieces to fiction magazines like Collier's Weekly and The Saturday Evening Post.

1947

His first novel, Date With Darkness, was published in 1947; over the next 46 years he published a total of 38 novels.

His first three books were published in hardcover by Rinehart.

After World War II, American publishers began to experiment with issuing original paperback fiction.

1954

Most of his early novels — published between 1954 and 1960 — were typical paperback originals of the era: fast-moving tales in paperbacks with lurid covers, whether suspense, spy, or western.

The most interesting of them is, arguably, Assignment: Murder, (alternate title: Assassins Have Starry Eyes), in which a mathematician working on the design for a nuclear bomb has to save his kidnapped wife from a group of shadowy villains.

Two classic western movies, The Big Country and The Violent Men, were adapted from his western novels (The Big Country and Smoky Valley respectively.)

1955

The Violent Men, 1955; adaptation of Smoky Valley

1957

Five Steps to Danger, 1957; adaptation of The Steel Mirror

1958

The Big Country, 1958; adaptation of The Big Country (Hamilton novel)

1960

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."

More substantial was the Matt Helm series, published by Gold Medal, which began with Death of a Citizen in 1960 and ran for 27 books, ending in 1993 with The Damagers.

Helm, a wartime agent in a secret agency that specialized in assassinating Nazis, is drawn back, after 15 years as a civilian, into a post-war world of espionage and assassination.

He narrates his adventures in a brisk, matter-of-fact tone with an occasional undertone of deadpan humor.

He describes gunfights, knife fights, torture, and (off-stage) sexual conquests with a carefully maintained professional detachment, like a pathologist dictating an autopsy report or a police officer describing an investigation.

Over the course of the series, this detachment comes to define Helm's character.

He is a professional doing a job; the job is killing people.

1969

The noted Golden Age mystery writer John Dickson Carr began reviewing books for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1969, and often praised thrillers of the day.

According to Carr's biographer, "Carr found Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm to be 'my favorite secret agent,'" although Hamilton's books had little in common with Carr's. "The explanation may lie in Carr's comment that in espionage novels he preferred Matt Helm's Cloud cuckoo land. Carr never valued realism in fiction."

2002

Hamilton completed one more Matt Helm novel, The Dominators in 2002, that has not been published.

2006

For a number of years after leaving Santa Fe he lived on his own yacht, then moved to Sweden, where he lived until his death in 2006.

A number of his Matt Helm novels are situated in the Santa Fe area and American Southwest in general; as Hamilton developed an interest in boating, many of the books began to have a nautical component as well.

Hamilton died in his sleep on November 20, 2006.

His papers are housed at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.