Richard Layman, Edgar Award nominated editor of Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade

Author and Editor Richard Layman

Richard Layman, the editor of Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade, has written six books on Dashiell Hammett, including Literary Masterpieces: The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography, and Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett. He was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America for editing Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960 and has been nominated for another Edgar Award for Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade.
He is vice president of Bruccoli Clark Layman Inc., which produces reference works in literary and social history, including the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Mr. Layman was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Louisville, and his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Layman currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

Selected books edited or written by Richard Layman

(Editor with Matthew J. Bruccoli, C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr., and B. Franklin V.) First Printings of American Authors, four volumes, Gale, 1975-79.
(with Bruccoli) Ring Lardner: A Descriptive Bibliography, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976.
An Exhibit of the Works of Ring Lardner, 1976.
(Associate editor) Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1976.
(Editor with Bruccoli) Ring Lardner, Some Champions: Previously Uncollected Autobiographical Sketches and Fiction, Scribner, 1977.
(Editor with Bruccoli) Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1977-1978.
(Editor with Jeffrey Helterman) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 2: American Novelists since 1945, Gale, 1978.
(Editorial director) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, 1978--.
Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979.
Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett, Harcourt, 1981.
(Editor with Bruccoli) The New Black Mask Quarterly, Harcourt, 1985-87.
(Editor with Bruccoli) A Matter of Crime, volumes 1-4, Harcourt, 1987-88.
(Editor with Bruccoli) Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Volume 6: Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, Gale, 1989.
(Editorial director) Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, Facts on File, 1989-1992.
(Producer with Bruccoli) Eminent Scholar Teachers, Omnigraphics, 1989-91.
(Editor) John Dos Passos, Afterglow and Other Undergraduate Writings of John Dos Passos, Omnigraphics, 1990.
Current Issues: Child Abuse, Omnigraphics, 1990.
(Editor with Bruccoli) Omni Companion to Current Literature, Omnigraphics, 1990.
(Editor) American Decades, 1950-1959, Gale, 1994
(Editor) American Decades, 1960-1969, Gale, 1995
(Editor with Joel Myerson) The Professions of Authorship: Essays in Honor of Matthew J. Broccoli, University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Literary Masterpieces: The Maltese Falcon, Gale Group, 2000.
Literary Masters: Dashiell Hammett, Gale Group, 2000.
(Editor, with Julie M. Rivett) Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, Counterpoint, 2001.
(with Julie M. Rivett) Dashiell Hammett: A Life in Letters, 2001.
(Editor with Julie M. Rivett) Josephine Hammett, Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers, Carroll & Graf, 2002.
(Editor) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 280: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon: A Documentary Volume, Gale, 2003.
(Guest editor) Special Hammett issue of Clues, 2005.
(Editor) Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade, Vince Emery Productions, 2005

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