- Wrote 27 Matt Helm espionage thrillers.
- Was twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America: in 1977 for his novel "The Retaliators" and in 1978 for "The Terrorizers.".
- Wrote a 28th Matt Helm novel, tentatively titled "The Dominators." At the time of Hamilton's death in 2006 the book had yet to be published, and the manuscript itself may reside with Hamilton's other papers in the special collections department at UCLA.
- Lived for most of his life in Sante Fe, New Mexico. In the last last decade of his life he returned to his native Sweden (which he had left as a child), where he lived in the care of his son and his son's family.
- His short story "The Guns of William Longley" won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award as best Western short story of the year.
- Came to the United States when he was 8 years old.
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