Dennis Lehane

At 59 years old, Dennis Lehane has this physical status:

Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author.

He has written more than a dozen books; the first several were a collection of mysteries involving a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War.

Gone, Baby, Gone, his fourth film, was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. Lehane's books were adapted as films included Mystic River (2001), which was directed by Clint Eastwood, and which received several accolades.

Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island was adapted as a 2010 film directed by him.

Personal life

Lehane was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts,'s Dorchester neighborhood. He lived in the Boston area for the bulk of his life, where he writes the bulk of his books, but now lives in southern California. He spent summers on Fieldston Beach, Marshfield. Lehane is the tweenest of five children. His father was a Sears & Roebuck foreman, and his mother worked in a Boston public school cafeteria. Both of his parents immigrated from Ireland. Lehane is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Gerry Lehane, a two-and-a-half years older than Dennis, worked at the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence and became an actor in New York in 1990. Gerry is a member of the Invisible City Theatre Company.

Lehane is married to Chisa Lehane. He has two children from a previous marriage.

He attended Boston College High School (a Jesuit prep school), Eckerd College (where he discovered his love for writing), and the Florida International University's creative writing program in Miami, Florida. He appeared in the ABC comedy/drama TV series Castle occasionally as himself.

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Career

The first book by Lehane, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, received the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. In 2007, Ben Affleck and Michelle Monaghan directed Gone, Baby, Gone, the fourth book in the series; it was directed by Ben Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Kenzie and Gennaro. "I saw the movie and it's fantastic, I wouldn't say anything if I didn't like it but it's awesome," Lehane said after a sneak peek. According to Lehane, he "has never intended to write the screenplays for the films [based on his own books] because he has "no desire to work on my own children."

In 2003, Lehane's novel Mystic River was turned into a film starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon; also called Mystic River and directed by Clint Eastwood. In the parade scene at the end of the film, Lehane can be seen waving from a car for a brief period of time. The novel itself was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and the Benjamin Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystère de la critique.

Coronado, Lehane's first play, premiered in New York in December 2005, which was produced by Invisible City Theater Company. In April 2006, the play appeared at American Stage in St. Petersburg, and it was presented in Chicago by Steep Theatre Company in 2007. Coronado is based on his best-American Short Stories and Both The Best American Short Stories of 2005, which was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly and selected for both The Best American Short Stories and The Best Mystery Short Stories of 2005.

Lehane referred to his literary book "The Given Day" as "a five- or six-year effort." The novel opens in 1918 and encompasses the 1919 Boston Police Strike and its aftermath. "The attack changed everything," Lehane said. It had a major effect on the unionization movement, and Prohibition came right after that, followed by Calvin Coolidge's promise to break the unions. It's all connected to what's going on right now." Although Lehane's epic book focuses on the 1919 Boston police strike, it may be the first of a trilogy or even a four-book series. Lehane referred to the book as his "great white whale" and that after finishing it, he would either write a sequel or take a break from the cops and return to Patrick and Angie. In October 2008, the novel was published.

Paramount Pictures reported on October 22, 2007, that they had optioned Shutter Island with Martin Scorsese as director. Leonardo DiCaprio appears in the Laeta Kalogridis-scripted version, with Laeta Kalogridis' scripted version. "Who is looking into the abduction of a murderer who recovered from a hospital for the criminally insane and is thought to be hiding on the isolated Shutter Island," Marshal Teddy Daniels. As President George Washington, Mark Ruffalo appeared opposite DiCaprio. Chuck Aule, Marshal. Shutter Island was first introduced in March 2008 and on February 19, 2010.

Lehane's sixth book in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series and his first of the series in 11 years, Moonlight Mile, was his sixth book in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series. In March 2015, he published World Gone by.

Mayor Thomas Menino appointed Lehane to the Boston Public Library's Board of Trustees in December 2011.

Lehane has taught at many colleges since becoming a literary success. He taught fiction writing and served as a member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He has also taught advanced fiction writing at Harvard University, where his classes have quickly packed up.

Lehane received an honorary Doctor of Human Letters degree from Eckerd College in May 2005 and was appointed to Eckerd's Board of Trustees later this year. He was living in St. Petersburg, Florida, briefly as writer-in-residence at Eckerd (usually during the spring semester), where he also co-directs the Writers in Paradise every January.

In the mid-1990s, Lehane wrote and directed Neighborhoods, an independent film. It was later described as similar to Good Will Hunting in Boston's working class areas, such as Southie and Dorchester. Its production ceased in 1996, more than a year before the more well-known Good Will Hunting.

In 2004, Lehane joined the writing staff of HBO's The Wire for the third season. Lehane wrote the teleplay for the episode "Dead Soldiers," a story by series creator and executive producer David Simon. In the third season episode, "Middle Ground," Lehane appeared as Sullivan, an officer in charge of special equipment. Lehane has expressed admiration for the show's designers (David Simon and Ed Burns) for having such an ear for authentic street slang. Lehane resurfaced as a writer for the fourth season in 2006 and penned the script for "Refugees," a tale he co-wrote with producer Ed Burns. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the 2007 Edgar Award for Outstanding Television Dramatic Series (WGA) for their work on the fourth season Laurel Lehane and the writing staff were lauded. Lehane appeared as a writer on the fifth and final seasons of 2008 and was credited with the episode "Clarifications." At the February 2009 ceremony, Lehane and the writing staff were nominated for the Best Dramatic Series for their work on the fifth season, but Mad Men received the honor.

He was a director at Shutter Island as an executive producer. Lehane will join HBO's Boardwalk Empire as both a writer and a creative consultant on November 27, 2012. He will work with showrunner Terence Winter on the outline of the fourth season of the series, and he has confirmed that he will write at least one episode.

The Drop, Lehane's first film screenplay, was released as an extension of his short story "Animal Rescue." Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini appeared in the film (in his last film role). The film, which was released on September 12, 2014, received raves, particularly for its "smartly written script." Lehane was hired to write Silk Road, a film about the online black market in 2013. The script for the remake of the critically acclaimed French film A Prophet, a prison drama, was also modified by the same year.

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