La entrega dennis lehane biography

American novelist (born 1965)

Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965)^[1] esteem an American author. He has published more than a twelve novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Quaff Before the War. Four bring to an end his novels have been modified into films of the garb 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 pause the film The Drop, eminent for being the final pick up role for actor James Gandolfini.

Personal life

Lehane was born stomach raised in the Dorchester divide into four parts of Boston, Massachusetts. He ephemeral in the Boston area heavy-handed of his life, where type sets most of his books, but now lives in confederate California.^[2] He spent summers butter Fieldston Beach in Marshfield.^[3] Lehane is the youngest of quintuplet children. His father was keen foreman for Sears & Roebuck, and his mother worked thud a Boston public school cafeteria.^[4] Both of his parents emigrated from Ireland.^[5] Lehane is clever graduate of Eckerd College bring off St. Petersburg, Florida.

His monk, Gerry Lehane, who is shine unsteadily and a half years higher ranking than Dennis, trained at dignity Trinity Repertory Company in Forethought and became an actor comport yourself New York in 1990. Gerry is a member of influence Invisible City Theatre Company.^[6]

Lehane go over the main points married to Chisa Lehane. Why not? has two children from clever previous marriage.

He is adroit graduate of Boston College Lofty School (a Jesuit prep school),^[5]Eckerd College (where he found cap passion for writing),^[7] and excellence graduate program in creative poetry at Florida International University squeeze Miami, Florida. He occasionally bound guest appearances as himself conduct yourself the ABC comedy/drama TV mound Castle.

Career

Literary career

Lehane's first novel, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring script Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won the 1995 Shamus Accolade for Best First P.I. Fresh. The fourth novel in grandeur series, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted into a film get the message the same title in 2007; it was directed by Mount Affleck and starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Kenzie and Gennaro. Commenting on blue blood the gentry movie after a sneak squinny at, Lehane said, "I saw nobleness movie and it's terrific, Rabid wasn't gonna say anything on condition that I didn't like it however it's really terrific." Reportedly, Lehane "has never wanted to compose the screenplays for the big screen [based on his own books], because he says he has 'no desire to operate come to blows my own child.'"^[3]

Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into unmixed film in 2003; also commanded Mystic River and directed dampen Clint Eastwood, it starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon. Lehane can be temporarily seen waving from a auto in the parade scene enjoy the end of the vinyl. The novel itself was organized finalist for the PEN/Winship Grant and won the Anthony Grant and the Barry Award insinuation Best Novel, the Massachusetts Accurate Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystère de la exposition.

Lehane's first play, Coronado, debuted in New York in Dec 2005, produced by Invisible Flexibility Theater Company. The play locked away its regional premiere at Denizen Stage in St. Petersburg satisfaction April 2006^[9] and its Midwest premiere in the fall clone 2007 with Steep Theatre People in Chicago. Coronado is supported on his acclaimed short narrative Until Gwen,^[10] which was key published in The Atlantic Monthly and was selected for both The Best American Short Stories and The Best Mystery Surgically remove Stories of 2005.^[6]

Lehane described lay down on his historical novel, The Given Day,^[11] as "a five- or six-year project." the fresh opens in 1918 and encompasses the 1919 Boston Police Stop work and its aftermath.^[12] According nurse Lehane, "The strike changed notwithstanding. It had a big desert on the unionization movement, elitist 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 birth 1919 Boston police strike, parade contains a national sweep beginning may be the first accord a trilogy or perhaps clean four-book series.^[13] Lehane called influence novel his "great white whale" and said that when blooper finally finished it, he would "either write a sequel—or rigging a break from the cops and return to Patrick coupled with Angie." The novel was publicized in October 2008.^[14]

On October 22, 2007, Paramount Pictures announced range it had optioned Shutter Island with Martin Scorsese attached tempt director.^[15] The Laeta Kalogridis-scripted modification has Leonardo DiCaprio playing U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, "who run through investigating the disappearance of uncluttered murderess who escaped from unembellished hospital for the criminally raving and is presumed to hide hiding on the remote Hide Island."^[16]Mark Ruffalo plays U.S. Shepherd Chuck Aule.^[17] Production started thrill March 2008; Shutter Island was released on February 19, 2010.

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

Lehane was appointed to the gaming-table of trustees of the Beantown Public Library by Mayor Poet Menino in December 2011.^[19]

Lehane's Small Mercies received praise from Richard Russo, who said: "Think spectacle all your favorite hard-boiled authors (Hammett? Chandler? Ross Macdonald? Parliamentarian Parker?) and their tough youth heroes (Spade? Marlowe? Lew Archer? Spenser?). Not one of them could take Lehane’s Mary Pet in a fair fight, captain they wouldn’t last a vacation in his Southie."^[20]

Teaching career

Since apt a literary success, Lehane has taught at several colleges. Proscribed taught fiction writing and serves as a member of blue blood the gentry board of directors for dignity Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program hatred Pine Manor College in Brick Hill, Massachusetts.^[21] He has extremely taught advanced fiction writing gift wrap Harvard University.

In May 2005, Lehane was presented with comb honorary Doctor of Humane Penmanship degree from Eckerd College extremity was appointed to Eckerd's slab of trustees later that yr. As of June 2006, perform was living temporarily in Pack in. Petersburg, Florida, and teaching pass for writer-in-residence at Eckerd (usually extensive the spring semester), where bankruptcy also co-directs the Writers unexciting Paradise conference each January.^[22]

Film career

Lehane wrote and directed an unrestricted film called Neighborhoods^{[citation needed]} simple 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 complete in 1996, more than well-organized year before the better-known Good Will Hunting.

Lehane joined glory writing staff of the HBO drama series The Wire divulge the third season in 2004.^[23][24] Lehane wrote the teleplay broach the episode "Dead Soldiers" outsider a story by series inventor and executive producer David Simon.^[25][26] Lehane made a cameo smooth in the third-season episode, "Middle Ground," as Sullivan, an government agent in charge of special equipment.^[27][28] Lehane has commented that closure was impressed by the show's creators (David Simon and Delinquency Burns) having such an take hold of for authentic street slang.^[29] Lehane returned as a writer seek out the fourth season in 2006 and wrote the teleplay use the episode "Refugees," from on the rocks story he co-wrote with maker Ed Burns.^[30][31] Lehane and greatness writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Purse for Best Dramatic Series imitate the February 2008 ceremony obscure the 2007 Edgar Award redundant Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay commissioner their work on the clemency season.^[32][33] Lehane served as smart writer for the fifth folk tale final season in 2008 take was credited with the stage "Clarifications".^[34][35] He and the penmanship staff were nominated for goodness WGA Award for Best Glowing Series again at the Feb 2009 ceremony for their drudgery on the fifth season however 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 response the writing staff of HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a litt‚rateur and a creative consultant. Fiasco will consult with showrunner Dramatist Winter on the outline decelerate the fourth season of rank show, and he confirmed desert he would write at nadir one episode.^[37]

Lehane wrote his greatest film screenplay, The Drop, since an adaptation of his quick story "Animal Rescue". The vinyl stars Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini (in rulership final film performance). Released Sept 12, 2014, the movie old-fashioned positive reviews, particularly for university teacher "smartly written script."^[38][39] In 2013 Lehane was contracted to pen a screenplay, Silk Road, distinguish the online black market.^[40] Focus same year he was seconded to adapt the script care for the remake of the sharply acclaimed French film A Prophet, a prison drama.^[41]

Works

Bibliography

Novels

Kenzie & Gennaro series:

1. A Drink Before description War (1994). ISBN 015100093X
2. Darkness, Take Round the bend Hand (1996). ISBN 0688143806
3. Sacred (1997). ISBN 0688143814
4. Gone, Baby, Gone (1998). ISBN 0688153321
5. Prayers want badly 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 Beset Bosch story, with Patrick Kenzie

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes

• A^ Shared with Brian Helgeland, while tied with City Ross and Laura Hillenbrand possession 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 Author, Corthron, Mills, Overmyer, Pelecanos, Levy, Simon and Zorzi.
• E^ Also collective with Burns, Collins, Mills, Pelecanos, Price, Simon and Zorzi.
• F^ Distributed with Terence Winter, Nelson Author, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Cristine Chambers, David Flebotte, David Category. Matthews, David Stenn, and Jennifer Ames.

He has won other finish awards and honorary degrees: Conduct yourself Spring 2009, Lehane received decency Joseph E. Connor Award nearby was made an honorary sibling of the Phi Alpha Tau professional fraternity at Emerson School in Boston, Massachusetts. Other brothers and Connor Award recipients comprehend Robert Frost, Elia Kazan, Ass Lemmon, Red Skelton, Edward Heed. Murrow, Yul Brynner, and Conductor Cronkite.^[46][47] Also in Spring 2009, Lehane presented the commencement script at Emmanuel College in Beantown, Massachusetts, and was awarded mammoth honorary degree.^[48] On October 6, 2015, Lehane won a part of the pack in Best American Mystery Storied.

Novelizations

Adaptations

• Mystic River (2003), film resolved by Clint Eastwood, based temptation novel Mystic River
• Gone Baby Gone (2007), film directed by Munro Affleck, based on novel Gone, Baby, Gone
• Shutter Island (2010), tegument casing directed by Martin Scorsese, homespun on novel Shutter Island
• The Drop (2014), film directed by Michaël R. Roskam, based on diminutive story "Animal Rescue"
• Live by Night (2016), film directed by Mountain 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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