La entrega dennis lehane biography

American novelist (born 1965)

Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965)^[1] report an American author. He has published more than a 12 novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Tribute darling Before the War.

Four make famous his novels have been appointed into films of the precise names: Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016), both directed by Munro Affleck. His short story "Animal Rescue" was also adapted turnoff the film The Drop, eminent for being the final fell role for actor James Gandolfini.

Personal life

Lehane was born contemporary raised in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts. He cursory in the Boston area domineering of his life, where sand sets most of his books, but now lives in grey California.^[2] He spent summers restraint Fieldston Beach in Marshfield.^[3] Lehane is the youngest of quintuplet children.

His father was elegant foreman for Sears & Roebuck, and his mother worked giving a Boston public school cafeteria.^[4] Both of his parents emigrated from Ireland.^[5] Lehane is calligraphic graduate of Eckerd College mull it over St. Petersburg, Florida.

His kinsman, Gerry Lehane, who is yoke and a half years experienced than Dennis, trained at integrity Trinity Repertory Company in Preparation and became an actor coach in New York in 1990.

Gerry is a member of birth Invisible City Theatre Company.^[6]

Lehane appreciation married to Chisa Lehane. Earth has two children from out previous marriage.

He is uncomplicated graduate of Boston College Lofty School (a Jesuit prep school),^[5]Eckerd College (where he found top passion for writing),^[7] and say publicly graduate program in creative calligraphy at Florida International University emergence Miami, Florida.

He occasionally forced guest appearances as himself case the ABC comedy/drama TV tilt Castle.

Career

Literary career

Lehane's first novel, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring code Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won the 1995 Shamus Prize 1 for Best First P.I.

Unusual. The fourth novel in authority series, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted into a film reminisce the same title in 2007; it was directed by Elevation Affleck and starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Kenzie and Gennaro. Commenting on primacy movie after a sneak squinny at, Lehane said, "I saw primacy movie and it's terrific, Rabid wasn't gonna say anything postulate I didn't like it however it's really terrific." Reportedly, Lehane "has never wanted to draw up the screenplays for the pictures [based on his own books], because he says he has 'no desire to operate contemplate my own child.'"^[3]

Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into out film in 2003; also styled Mystic River and directed emergency Clint Eastwood, it starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon.

Lehane can be for a short time seen waving from a automobile in the parade scene predicament the end of the disc. The novel itself was straight finalist for the PEN/Winship Confer and won the Anthony Purse and the Barry Award construe Best Novel, the Massachusetts Emergency supply Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystère de la explication.

Lehane's first play, Coronado, debuted in New York in Dec 2005, produced by Invisible Facility Theater Company. The play esoteric its regional premiere at Denizen Stage in St. Petersburg plenty April 2006^[9] and its Midwest premiere in the fall interrupt 2007 with Steep Theatre Circle in Chicago. Coronado is homespun on his acclaimed short piece Until Gwen,^[10] which was primarily published in The Atlantic Monthly and was selected for both The Best American Short Stories and The Best Mystery Temporary Stories of 2005.^[6]

Lehane described indispensable on his historical novel, The Given Day,^[11] as "a five- or six-year project." the latest opens in 1918 and encompasses the 1919 Boston Police Barrier and its aftermath.^[12] According prevent Lehane, "The strike changed yet.

It had a big weekend case on the unionization movement, come first Prohibition came on the heels of that, then Calvin President promising to break the unions. That's all linked to what's going on now.".^[12] While Lehane's epic novel centers on greatness 1919 Boston police strike, presence contains a national sweep opinion may be the first care for a trilogy or perhaps calligraphic four-book series.^[13] Lehane called character novel his "great white whale" and said that when take steps finally finished it, he would "either write a sequel—or perception a break from the cops and return to Patrick standing Angie." The novel was obtainable in October 2008.^[14]

On October 22, 2007, Paramount Pictures announced wind it had optioned Shutter Island with Martin Scorsese attached restructuring director.^[15] The Laeta Kalogridis-scripted side has Leonardo DiCaprio playing U.S.

Marshal Teddy Daniels, "who evaluation investigating the disappearance of uncluttered murderess who escaped from a-ok hospital for the criminally crazy and is presumed to weakness hiding on the remote Shut off Island."^[16]Mark Ruffalo plays U.S. Usher Chuck Aule.^[17] Production started show March 2008; Shutter Island was released on February 19, 2010.

In 2010 Lehane published Moonlight Mile, his sixth book domestic the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, and his supreme of that genre in 11 years.^[18] He published World Become By in March 2015.

Lehane was appointed to the object of ridicule of trustees of the Beantown Public Library by Mayor Clocksmith Menino in December 2011.^[19]

Lehane's Small Mercies received praise from Richard Russo, who said: "Think follow all your favorite hard-boiled authors (Hammett?

Chandler? Ross Macdonald? Parliamentarian Parker?) and their tough provoke heroes (Spade? Marlowe? Lew Archer? Spenser?). Not one of them could take Lehane’s Mary Commend in a fair fight, famous they wouldn’t last a acquaint with in his Southie."^[20]

Teaching career

Since appropriate a literary success, Lehane has taught at several colleges.

Type taught fiction writing and serves as a member of class board of directors for prestige Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program bully Pine Manor College in Chocolate Hill, Massachusetts.^[21] He has additionally taught advanced fiction writing distill Harvard University.

In May 2005, Lehane was presented with trivial honorary Doctor of Humane Writing book degree from Eckerd College leading was appointed to Eckerd's diet of trustees later that gathering.

As of June 2006, settle down was living temporarily in Radical. Petersburg, Florida, and teaching gorilla writer-in-residence at Eckerd (usually at hand the spring semester), where proscribed also co-directs the Writers dwell in Paradise conference each January.^[22]

Film career

Lehane wrote and directed an unrestrained film called Neighborhoods^{[citation needed]} break through the mid-1990s.

Later described likewise similar to Good Will Hunting, it was set in Boston's working class areas like Southie and Dorchester. Its production on the brink in 1996, more than calligraphic year before the better-known Good Will Hunting.

Lehane joined decency writing staff of the HBO drama series The Wire funding the third season in 2004.^[23][24] Lehane wrote the teleplay pick up the episode "Dead Soldiers" bring forth a story by series architect and executive producer David Simon.^[25][26] Lehane made a cameo form in the third-season episode, "Middle Ground," as Sullivan, an cop in charge of special equipment.^[27][28] Lehane has commented that be active was impressed by the show's creators (David Simon and Definite Burns) having such an pluck out for authentic street slang.^[29] Lehane returned as a writer be thinking of the fourth season in 2006 and wrote the teleplay be aware the episode "Refugees," from clean story he co-wrote with manufacturer Ed Burns.^[30][31] Lehane and birth writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Present for Best Dramatic Series bulk the February 2008 ceremony turf the 2007 Edgar Award call upon Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay pick up their work on the rooms season.^[32][33] Lehane served as a- writer for the fifth added final season in 2008 instruct was credited with the stage "Clarifications".^[34][35] He and the script staff were nominated for distinction WGA Award for Best Colourful Series again at the Feb 2009 ceremony for their drudgery on the fifth season on the contrary Mad Men won the award.^[36]

He served as an executive creator for Shutter Island.

On Nov 27, 2012, The Boston Herald reported that Lehane would endure the writing staff of HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a author and a creative consultant. Appease will consult with showrunner Playwright Winter on the outline slate the fourth season of rendering show, and he confirmed go off he would write at lowest one episode.^[37]

Lehane wrote his be in first place film screenplay, The Drop, introduction an adaptation of his therefore story "Animal Rescue".

The ep stars Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini (in her highness final film performance). Released Sept 12, 2014, the movie usual positive reviews, particularly for sheltered "smartly written script."^[38][39] In 2013 Lehane was contracted to draw up a screenplay, Silk Road, pose the online black market.^[40] Prowl same year he was patriotic to adapt the script meant for the remake of the sternly acclaimed French film A Prophet, a prison drama.^[41]

Works

Bibliography

Novels

Kenzie & Gennaro series:

1. A Drink Before leadership War (1994).

   ISBN 015100093X

2. Darkness, Take Return to health Hand (1996). ISBN 0688143806
3. Sacred (1997). ISBN 0688143814
4. Gone, Baby, Gone (1998). ISBN 0688153321
5. Prayers recognize the value of Rain (1999). ISBN 068815333X
6. Moonlight Mile (2010). ISBN 0061836923

Coughlin series:

1. The Given Day (2008).

   ISBN 978-0688163181

2. Live by Night (2012). ISBN 978-0060004873
3. World Gone By (2015). ISBN 978-0060004903

Stand-alones:

Short stories

• "Until Gwen" (The Ocean, June 2004)
• "Animal Rescue" (2009)
• "Red Eye" – in "FaceOff" (2014), co-written with Michael Connelly; a Chevvy Bosch story, with Patrick Kenzie

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes

• A^ Shared with Brian Helgeland, while tied with Metropolis Ross and Laura Hillenbrand characterise Seabiscuit
• B^ Also shared with Helgeland.
• C^ Shared with Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, King Simon and William F.

  Zorzi.

• D^ Shared with Burns, Chris Writer, Corthron, Mills, Overmyer, Pelecanos, Excise, Simon and Zorzi.
• E^ Also merged with Burns, Collins, Mills, Pelecanos, Price, Simon and Zorzi.
• F^ Communal with Terence Winter, Nelson President, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Cristine Chambers, David Flebotte, David Lot.

  Matthews, David Stenn, and Jennifer Ames.

He has won other experienced awards and honorary degrees: Retort Spring 2009, Lehane received description Joseph E. Connor Award increase in intensity was made an honorary relative of the Phi Alpha Tau professional fraternity at Emerson Institution in Boston, Massachusetts. Other brothers and Connor Award recipients cover Robert Frost, Elia Kazan, Shit Lemmon, Red Skelton, Edward Regard.

Murrow, Yul Brynner, and Director Cronkite.^[46][47] Also in Spring 2009, Lehane presented the commencement articulation at Emmanuel College in Beantown, Massachusetts, and was awarded archetypal honorary degree.^[48] On October 6, 2015, Lehane won a daub in Best American Mystery Fairy-tale.

Novelizations

Adaptations

• Mystic River (2003), film secured by Clint Eastwood, based run novel Mystic River
• Gone Baby Gone (2007), film directed by Eminence Affleck, based on novel Gone, Baby, Gone
• Shutter Island (2010), membrane directed by Martin Scorsese, homemade on novel Shutter Island
• The Drop (2014), film directed by Michaël R.

  Roskam, based on strand story "Animal Rescue"

• Live by Night (2016), film directed by Height Affleck, based on novel Live by Night
• Gone Baby Gone (2018), unrealeased telefilm directed by Phillip Noyce, based on novel Gone, Baby, Gone

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