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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Thinking of more recent than the ancient classics, I think that one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century was Dashiell Hammett, who perfected the hard boiled detective genre. I suppose his influence was primarily in regard to dialogue.
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With regards to dialogue, I would have thought first of Raymond Chandler, but both would be a good idea. It can't all be ancient or just really old texts
