Dennis Lehane
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| Dennis Lehane | |
 Dennis Lehane at Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York City, 15 August 2006. |
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| Born: | 1966 Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| 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.
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[edit] 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.
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]
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- 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, On Episode 3.11 Middle Ground he appeared as a police officer in charge of special equipment.
- 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].
[edit] Works
[edit] 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)
[edit] Other works
- Mystic River (2001)
- Shutter Island (2003)
- Coronado: Stories (2006)
[edit] 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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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Lehane, Dennis |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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