Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane at Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York City, 15 August 2006.
Born:	1966 Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation:	Novelist
Nationality:	United States
Genres:	Crime fiction, mystery fiction
Debut works:	A Drink Before the War (1994)
Website:	dennislehanebooks.com

Dennis Lehane (born 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times-bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 517 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (923 × 1070 pixel, file size: 140 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The author of this photograph is me, David Shankbone. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1888 German map of Boston Harbor showing Dorchester in the lower left hand corner. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ... Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ... Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Mystic River is an American film released in 2003, starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. ... Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. ... Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor & director. ... Tim Robbins at Cannes, 2001 Height: 6 ft 4 in / 1. ... Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film and theatre actor who has starred in Footloose, Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among many others. ... The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. ...

Biography

Lehane was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and continues to live in the Boston area (and, at least temporarily, in St.Petersburg, FL), which provides the setting for most of his books. He is a graduate of Boston College High School, Eckerd College (where he truly found his passion for writing), and the nationally recognized graduate program in creative writing at Florida International University. His first book, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring characters Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. 1888 German map of Boston Harbor showing Dorchester in the lower left hand corner. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Founded in 1863, Boston College High School (also known as BC High) is an all-male Jesuit college preparatory secondary school with historical ties to Boston College. ... Eckerd College is a private 4-year coeducational liberal arts college at the southernmost tip of St. ... Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from technical writing. ... Florida International University (FIU) is a major state-run university located in Miami, Florida, well-known for its business, hospitality management, creative writing, architecture, and engineering programs. ... The Shamus Award is awarded by the Private Eye Writers of America for the best private eye genre novel of the year. ...

Currently, as of June 2006, he teaches as Eckerd's writer-in-residence and co-directs Eckerd's Writers in Paradise conference in January.^[1]

Points of Interest

• Lehane taught fiction writing and serves as a member of the board of directors for a low-residency MFA program sponsored by Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
• He had been involved with the Solstice Summer Writers' Converence at Boston's Pine Manor College.
• Taught advanced fiction writing at Harvard University, where his classes filled up rather quickly.
• Taught a 2006 Winter Term (January) course at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida. The course was called 'Writing the Genre/Crossover Novel' and was part of "Writers in Paradise" program.
• Lehane was presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Eckerd College in May 2005 and was appointed to Eckerd's Board of Trustees later that year.
• Lehane's first play, Coronado debuted in New York in December 2005. The play had its regional premiere at American Stage in St. Petersburg in April 2006.^[2]
• A movie adaptation of the fourth Kenzie-Gennaro book, Gone, Baby, Gone, is in post production (according to www.imdb.com) with likely release in 2007 and is being directed by Ben Affleck (who owns the rights), who also wrote the screenplay.[1]
• Shutter Island has also been optioned by a film company and will become a major motion picture (with Wolfgang Petersen, the director of The Perfect Storm, owning those rights).
• Lehane has recently been working as a writer for the HBO drama series The Wire.
• He is working on an historical novel set in the early 1900s (1918-1921) involving the 1919 Boston Police Strike and focusing on the unionization of the Boston Police, the events leading up to the strike, the strike itself, and the aftermath. He is currently (August 2006) over 700 pages into the book, which could be released as early as September 2007^{[citation needed]}.

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Works

The Kenzie-Gennaro novels

• A Drink Before the War (1994)
• Darkness, Take My Hand (1996)
• Sacred (1997)
• Gone, Baby, Gone (1998)
• Prayers for Rain (1999)

Other works

• Mystic River (2001)
• Shutter Island (2003)
• Coronado: Stories (2006)

Mystic River is a novel by Dennis Lehane that was published in 2001. ...

External links

• Lehane Books
• Dennis Lehane at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Dennis Lehane
• Interview with Dennis Lehane 2001
• Interview with Dennis Lehane 2003
• John Connolly interview with Dennis Lehane 2000
• "Dennis Lehane Talks" - an August 2005 Maddux Business Report interview
• Lehane's complete oeuvre at the site of his long-time literary agent
• Fantastic Fiction Profile

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Sources

1. ^ http://writersinparadise.eckerd.edu/index.php
2. ^ http://www.coronadotheplay.com/