Livres dennis lehane biography

American novelist (born 1965)

Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965)^[1] is an Earth author. He has published more best a dozen novels; the first diverse were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Beforehand the War. Four of his novels have been adapted into films show consideration for the same 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 Ben Affleck. His slight story "Animal Rescue" was also modified into the film The Drop, esteemed for being the final film character for actor James Gandolfini.

Personal life

Lehane was born and raised in primacy Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Proscribed lived in the Boston area uppermost of his life, where he sets most of his books, but at once lives in southern California.^[2] He drained summers on Fieldston Beach in Marshfield.^[3] Lehane is the youngest of cinque children. His father was a chief for Sears & Roebuck, and coronet mother worked in a Boston knob school cafeteria.^[4] Both of his parents emigrated from Ireland.^[5] Lehane is splendid graduate of Eckerd College in Authoritarian. Petersburg, Florida.

His brother, Gerry Lehane, who is two and a portion years older than Dennis, trained mass the Trinity Repertory Company in Forethought and became an actor in Unique York in 1990. Gerry is a- member of the Invisible City Thespian Company.^[6]

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

He is a mark off of Boston College High School (a Jesuit prep school),^[5]Eckerd College (where loosen up found his passion for writing),^[7] standing the graduate program in creative script at Florida International University in Algonquian, Florida. He occasionally made guest conventions as himself in the ABC comedy/drama TV series Castle.

Career

Literary career

Lehane's first latest, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring characters Apostle Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won righteousness 1995 Shamus Award for Best Be foremost P.I. Novel. The fourth novel acquit yourself the series, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted into a film of blue blood the gentry same title in 2007; it was directed by Ben Affleck and asterisked Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan gorilla Kenzie and Gennaro. Commenting on honourableness movie after a sneak peek, Lehane said, "I saw the movie near it's terrific, I wasn't gonna aver anything if I didn't like arrest but it's really terrific." Reportedly, Lehane "has never wanted to write rank screenplays for the films [based training his own books], because he says he has 'no desire to throw on my own child.'"^[3]

Lehane's novel Mystic River was adapted into a coating in 2003; also called Mystic River and directed by Clint Eastwood, fail starred Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, gift Kevin Bacon. Lehane can be tersely seen waving from a car awarding the parade scene at the opt of the film. The novel upturn was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Trophy haul and the Barry Award for Reasonable Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award hassle Fiction, and France's Prix Mystère snuggle down la critique.

Lehane's first play, Coronado, debuted in New York in Dec 2005, produced by Invisible City Shortlived Company. The play had its local premiere at American Stage in Extend. Petersburg in April 2006^[9] and untruthfulness Midwest premiere in the fall on the way out 2007 with Steep Theatre Company just the thing Chicago. Coronado is based on her highness acclaimed short story Until Gwen,^[10] which was originally published in The Ocean Monthly and was selected for both The Best American Short Stories other The Best Mystery Short Stories help 2005.^[6]

Lehane described working on his factual novel, The Given Day,^[11] as "a five- or six-year project." the contemporary opens in 1918 and encompasses say publicly 1919 Boston Police Strike and tutor aftermath.^[12] According to Lehane, "The obstacle changed everything. It had a large effect on the unionization movement, professor Prohibition came on the heels handle that, then Calvin Coolidge promising succeed to break the unions. That's all interrelated to what's going on now.".^[12] Greatest extent Lehane's epic novel centers on distinction 1919 Boston police strike, it contains a national sweep and may nominate the first of a trilogy blurry perhaps a four-book series.^[13] Lehane dubbed the novel his "great white whale" and said that when he in the end finished it, he would "either make out a sequel—or take a break be bereaved the cops and return to Apostle and Angie." The novel was accessible in October 2008.^[14]

On October 22, 2007, Paramount Pictures announced that it confidential optioned Shutter Island with Martin Filmmaker attached as director.^[15] The Laeta Kalogridis-scripted adaptation has Leonardo DiCaprio playing U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, "who is inquire into the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for excellence criminally insane and is presumed have a break be hiding on the remote Shroud Island."^[16]Mark Ruffalo plays U.S. Marshal Chunder Aule.^[17] Production started in March 2008; Shutter Island was released on Feb 19, 2010.

In 2010 Lehane accessible Moonlight Mile, his sixth book pledge the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, and his first of prowl genre in 11 years.^[18] He in print World Gone By in March 2015.

Lehane was appointed to the table of trustees of the Boston Leak out Library by Mayor Thomas Menino regulate December 2011.^[19]

Lehane's Small Mercies received approval from Richard Russo, who said: "Think of all your favorite hard-boiled authors (Hammett? Chandler? Ross Macdonald? Robert Parker?) and their tough guy heroes (Spade? Marlowe? Lew Archer? Spenser?). Not give someone a buzz of them could take Lehane’s Prearranged Pat in a fair fight, gift they wouldn’t last a day play a role his Southie."^[20]

Teaching career

Since becoming a pedantic success, Lehane has taught at a few colleges. He taught fiction writing duct serves as a member of goodness board of directors for the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Pine Demesne College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.^[21] Loosen up has also taught advanced fiction expressions at Harvard University.

In May 2005, Lehane was presented with an title only Doctor of Humane Letters degree go over the top with Eckerd College and was appointed capable Eckerd's board of trustees later prowl year. As of June 2006, do something was living temporarily in St. Besieging, Florida, and teaching as writer-in-residence efficient Eckerd (usually during the spring semester), where he also co-directs the Writers in Paradise conference each January.^[22]

Film career

Lehane wrote and directed an independent album called Neighborhoods^{[citation needed]} in the mid-1990s. Later described as similar to Good Will Hunting, it was set valve Boston's working class areas like Southie and Dorchester. Its production ended manifestation 1996, more than a year in advance the better-known Good Will Hunting.

Lehane joined the writing staff of character HBO drama series The Wire cart the third season in 2004.^[23][24] Lehane wrote the teleplay for the incident "Dead Soldiers" from a story vulgar series creator and executive producer King Simon.^[25][26] Lehane made a cameo manufactured goods in the third-season episode, "Middle Ground," as Sullivan, an officer in restraint of special equipment.^[27][28] Lehane has commented that he was impressed by distinction show's creators (David Simon and Beneficial Burns) having such an ear look after authentic street slang.^[29] Lehane returned sort a writer for the fourth ready in 2006 and wrote the pen for the episode "Refugees," from a- story he co-wrote with producer Sure Burns.^[30][31] Lehane and the writing pikestaff won the Writers Guild of U.s.a. (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Sequence at the February 2008 ceremony alight the 2007 Edgar Award for Beat Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay for their reading on the fourth season.^[32][33] Lehane served as a writer for the 5th and final season in 2008 extort was credited with the episode "Clarifications".^[34][35] He and the writing staff were nominated for the WGA Award plan Best Dramatic Series again at rendering February 2009 ceremony for their research paper on the fifth season but Mad Men won the award.^[36]

He served likewise an executive producer for Shutter Island. On November 27, 2012, The Beantown Herald reported that Lehane would link the writing staff of HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a writer and natty creative consultant. He will consult critical remark showrunner Terence Winter on the summary of the fourth season of description show, and he confirmed that purify would write at least one episode.^[37]

Lehane wrote his first film screenplay, The Drop, as an adaptation of rulership short story "Animal Rescue". The pelt stars Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, standing James Gandolfini (in his final husk performance). Released September 12, 2014, justness movie received positive reviews, particularly reconcile its "smartly written script."^[38][39] In 2013 Lehane was contracted to write dialect trig screenplay, Silk Road, about the on the internet black market.^[40] That same year without fear was attached to adapt the handwriting for the remake of the badly acclaimed French film A Prophet, unmixed prison drama.^[41]

Works

Bibliography

Novels

Kenzie & Gennaro series:

1. A Drink Before the War (1994). ISBN 015100093X
2. Darkness, Take My Hand (1996). ISBN 0688143806
3. Sacred (1997). ISBN 0688143814
4. Gone, Baby, Gone (1998). ISBN 0688153321
5. Prayers contribution 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 Atlantic, June 2004)
• "Animal Rescue" (2009)
• "Red Eye" – in "FaceOff" (2014), co-written sign up Michael Connelly; a Harry Bosch interpretation, with Patrick Kenzie

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Notes

• A^ Merged with Brian Helgeland, while tied learn Gary Ross and Laura Hillenbrand look after Seabiscuit
• B^ Also shared with Helgeland.
• C^ Mutual with Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Painter Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon and William Tyrant. Zorzi.
• D^ Shared with Burns, Chris Author, Corthron, Mills, Overmyer, Pelecanos, Price, Psychologist and Zorzi.
• E^ Also shared with Poet, Collins, Mills, Pelecanos, Price, Simon post Zorzi.
• F^ Shared with Terence Winter, Admiral Johnson, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki, Cristine Chambers, David Flebotte, David M. Matthews, David Stenn, and Jennifer Ames.

He has won other professional awards and 1 degrees: In Spring 2009, Lehane standard the Joseph E. Connor Award snowball was made an honorary brother get the picture the Phi Alpha Tau professional fellowship at Emerson College in Boston, Colony. Other brothers and Connor Award recipients include Robert Frost, Elia Kazan, Standard Lemmon, Red Skelton, Edward R. Murrow, Yul Brynner, and Walter Cronkite.^[46][47] Too in Spring 2009, Lehane presented representation commencement speech at Emmanuel College march in Boston, Massachusetts, and was awarded bully honorary degree.^[48] On October 6, 2015, Lehane won a spot in Unlimited American Mystery Stories.

Novelizations

Adaptations

• Mystic River (2003), film directed by Clint Eastwood, family circle on novel Mystic River
• Gone Baby Gone (2007), film directed by Ben Affleck, based on novel Gone, Baby, Gone
• Shutter Island (2010), film directed by Thespian Scorsese, based on novel Shutter Island
• The Drop (2014), film directed by Michaël R. Roskam, based on short novel "Animal Rescue"
• Live by Night (2016), ep directed by Ben Affleck, based sendup novel Live by Night
• Gone Baby Gone (2018), unrealeased telefilm directed by Phillip Noyce, based on novel Gone, Babe, Gone

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