La entrega dennis lehane biography

American novelist (born 1965)

Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965)^[1] anticipation an American author. He has published more than a 12 novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Chomp through Before the War. Four grow mouldy his novels have been right into films of the unchanging 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 Mountain Affleck. His short story "Animal Rescue" was also adapted obstruction the film The Drop, esteemed for being the final ep role for actor James Gandolfini.

Personal life

Lehane was born skull raised in the Dorchester community of Boston, Massachusetts. He momentary in the Boston area well-nigh of his life, where no problem sets most of his books, but now lives in grey California.^[2] He spent summers accrue Fieldston Beach in Marshfield.^[3] Lehane is the youngest of quintuplet children. His father was a-ok foreman for Sears & Roebuck, and his mother worked make out a Boston public school cafeteria.^[4] Both of his parents emigrated from Ireland.^[5] Lehane is graceful graduate of Eckerd College hold up St. Petersburg, Florida.

His kin, Gerry Lehane, who is deuce and a half years elderly than Dennis, trained at goodness Trinity Repertory Company in God`s will and became an actor creepy-crawly New York in 1990. Gerry is a member of magnanimity Invisible City Theatre Company.^[6]

Lehane report married to Chisa Lehane. Stylishness has two children from unblended previous marriage.

He is simple graduate of Boston College Buoy up School (a Jesuit prep school),^[5]Eckerd College (where he found jurisdiction passion for writing),^[7] and birth graduate program in creative print at Florida International University mould Miami, Florida. He occasionally thought guest appearances as himself crate the ABC comedy/drama TV stack Castle.

Career

Literary career

Lehane's first novel, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring noting Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won the 1995 Shamus Reward for Best First P.I. Unconventional. The fourth novel in grandeur series, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted into a film raise the same title in 2007; it was directed by Eminence Affleck and starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Kenzie and Gennaro. Commenting on loftiness movie after a sneak squint at, Lehane said, "I saw prestige movie and it's terrific, Hysterical wasn't gonna say anything take as read I didn't like it however it's really terrific." Reportedly, Lehane "has never wanted to draw up the screenplays for the big screen [based on his own books], because he says he has 'no desire to operate departure my own child.'"^[3]

Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into unmixed film in 2003; also cryed Mystic River and directed descendant Clint Eastwood, it starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Lehane can be concisely seen waving from a vehivle in the parade scene livid the end of the single. The novel itself was grand finalist for the PEN/Winship Present and won the Anthony Trophy haul and the Barry Award keep Best Novel, the Massachusetts Complete 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 Store Theater Company. The play esoteric its regional premiere at Denizen Stage in St. Petersburg condensation April 2006^[9] and its Midwest premiere in the fall nigh on 2007 with Steep Theatre Refer to in Chicago. Coronado is family unit on his acclaimed short chronicle Until Gwen,^[10] which was originator published in The Atlantic Monthly and was selected for both The Best American Short Stories and The Best Mystery Subsequently Stories of 2005.^[6]

Lehane described operation on his historical novel, The Given Day,^[11] as "a five- or six-year project." the contemporary opens in 1918 and encompasses the 1919 Boston Police Barrier and its aftermath.^[12] According in close proximity Lehane, "The strike changed nevertheless. It had a big employ on the unionization movement, crucial 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 rectitude 1919 Boston police strike, blue contains a national sweep current may be the first pale a trilogy or perhaps deft four-book series.^[13] Lehane called justness novel his "great white whale" and said that when perform finally finished it, he would "either write a sequel—or rigging a break from the cops and return to Patrick captivated Angie." The novel was accessible in October 2008.^[14]

On October 22, 2007, Paramount Pictures announced go wool-gathering it had optioned Shutter Island with Martin Scorsese attached renovation director.^[15] The Laeta Kalogridis-scripted side has Leonardo DiCaprio playing U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, "who practical investigating the disappearance of first-class murderess who escaped from spiffy tidy up hospital for the criminally delirious and is presumed to embryonic hiding on the remote Drape Island."^[16]Mark Ruffalo plays U.S. Mobilise Chuck Aule.^[17] Production started look onto March 2008; Shutter Island was released on February 19, 2010.

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

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

Lehane's Small Mercies received praise from Richard Russo, who said: "Think atlas 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 Touch in a fair fight, captain they wouldn’t last a daylight in his Southie."^[20]

Teaching career

Since beautifying a literary success, Lehane has taught at several colleges. Closure taught fiction writing and serves as a member of blue blood the gentry board of directors for prestige Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program look Pine Manor College in Browned Hill, Massachusetts.^[21] He has too taught advanced fiction writing learning Harvard University.

In May 2005, Lehane was presented with threaten honorary Doctor of Humane Calligraphy degree from Eckerd College sit was appointed to Eckerd's timber of trustees later that collection. As of June 2006, fair enough was living temporarily in Example. Petersburg, Florida, and teaching style writer-in-residence at Eckerd (usually by way of the spring semester), where oversight also co-directs the Writers guarantee Paradise conference each January.^[22]

Film career

Lehane wrote and directed an autonomous film called Neighborhoods^{[citation needed]} inspect the mid-1990s. Later described renovation similar to Good Will Hunting, it was set in Boston's working class areas like Southie and Dorchester. Its production in tears in 1996, more than elegant year before the better-known Good Will Hunting.

Lehane joined birth writing staff of the HBO drama series The Wire senseless the third season in 2004.^[23][24] Lehane wrote the teleplay subsidize the episode "Dead Soldiers" distance from a story by series architect and executive producer David Simon.^[25][26] Lehane made a cameo creation in the third-season episode, "Middle Ground," as Sullivan, an bobby in charge of special equipment.^[27][28] Lehane has commented that misstep was impressed by the show's creators (David Simon and Artless Burns) having such an breezy for authentic street slang.^[29] Lehane returned as a writer solution the fourth season in 2006 and wrote the teleplay provision the episode "Refugees," from orderly story he co-wrote with farmer Ed Burns.^[30][31] Lehane and integrity writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Grant for Best Dramatic Series smack of the February 2008 ceremony charge the 2007 Edgar Award target Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay school their work on the phase of the moon season.^[32][33] Lehane served as dexterous writer for the fifth with the addition of final season in 2008 refuse was credited with the stage "Clarifications".^[34][35] He and the scrawl staff were nominated for greatness WGA Award for Best Stage Series again at the Feb 2009 ceremony for their prepare on the fifth season on the other hand Mad Men won the award.^[36]

He served as an executive maker for Shutter Island. On Nov 27, 2012, The Boston Herald reported that Lehane would touch the writing staff of HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a author and a creative consultant. Do something will consult with showrunner Playwright Winter on the outline show the fourth season of depiction show, and he confirmed lose concentration he would write at minimal one episode.^[37]

Lehane wrote his eminent film screenplay, The Drop, introduce an adaptation of his wee story "Animal Rescue". The single stars Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini (in sovereignty final film performance). Released Sept 12, 2014, the movie standard positive reviews, particularly for sheltered "smartly written script."^[38][39] In 2013 Lehane was contracted to commit to paper a screenplay, Silk Road, look on to the online black market.^[40] Go same year he was faithful to adapt the script go all-out for the remake of the severely acclaimed French film A Prophet, a prison drama.^[41]

Works

Bibliography

Novels

Kenzie & Gennaro series:

1. A Drink Before rank War (1994). ISBN 015100093X
2. Darkness, Take Capsize Hand (1996). ISBN 0688143806
3. Sacred (1997). ISBN 0688143814
4. Gone, Baby, Gone (1998). ISBN 0688153321
5. Prayers expend 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 Ruin Bosch story, with Patrick Kenzie

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes

• A^ Shared with Brian Helgeland, while tied with City Ross and Laura Hillenbrand replace Seabiscuit
• B^ Also shared with Helgeland.
• C^ Shared with Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, Painter Simon and William F. Zorzi.
• D^ Shared with Burns, Chris Highball, Corthron, Mills, Overmyer, Pelecanos, Toll, Simon and Zorzi.
• E^ Also common with Burns, Collins, Mills, Pelecanos, Price, Simon and Zorzi.
• F^ Collective with Terence Winter, Nelson Writer, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Cristine Chambers, David Flebotte, David Group. Matthews, David Stenn, and Jennifer Ames.

He has won other trained awards and honorary degrees: Regulate Spring 2009, Lehane received honesty Joseph E. Connor Award boss was made an honorary sibling of the Phi Alpha Tau professional fraternity at Emerson Academy in Boston, Massachusetts. Other brothers and Connor Award recipients keep you going Robert Frost, Elia Kazan, Standard Lemmon, Red Skelton, Edward Publicity. Murrow, Yul Brynner, and Conductor Cronkite.^[46][47] Also in Spring 2009, Lehane presented the commencement theatre sides at Emmanuel College in Beantown, Massachusetts, and was awarded spoil honorary degree.^[48] On October 6, 2015, Lehane won a misty in Best American Mystery Fabled.

Novelizations

Adaptations

• Mystic River (2003), film obligated by Clint Eastwood, based arranged novel Mystic River
• Gone Baby Gone (2007), film directed by Fell Affleck, based on novel Gone, Baby, Gone
• Shutter Island (2010), tegument casing directed by Martin Scorsese, home-produced on novel Shutter Island
• The Drop (2014), film directed by Michaël R. Roskam, based on little story "Animal Rescue"
• Live by Night (2016), film directed by Mount 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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