


Award-winning Novelist & Screenwriter
Dennis Lehane
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Dennis Lehane grew up in Boston. Since his first novel, A Drink Before the War, won the Shamus Award, he has published twelve more novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and become international bestsellers: Darkness, Take My Hand; Sacred; Gone, Baby, Gone; Prayers for Rain; Mystic River; Shutter Island; The Given Day; Moonlight Mile; Live by Night; and World Gone By. His most recent work is a stand-alone novel, Since We Fell.
Four of his novels – Live by Night, Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Shutter Island – have been adapted into films. A fifth, The Drop, was adapted by Lehane himself into a film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini in his final role.
Lehane was a staff writer on the acclaimed HBO series, The Wire, and also worked as a writer-producer on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Netflix's Bloodline, DirecTV's Mr. Mercedes, and HBO's The Outsider. He also developed and executive produced Black Bird, a limited series airing on Apple TV+ in July 2022.
Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He and his family live in California.
LINKS
Aspen Times: Following ‘The Outsider’ finale (2020)
New York Times: In Dennis Lehane’s ‘Since We Fell,’ a Troubled Woman Seeks Answers (2017)
Trailer for Live by Night (2016) [video]
WBUR: Crime and Vengeance with Boston's Own Dennis Lehane (2015) [audio]
Telegraph: 10 rules for making it as a writer, by Dennis Lehane (2015)
Irish Examiner: An interview with Boston Irish author Dennis Lehane (2015)
Chicago Tribune: Review: 'World Gone By' by Dennis Lehane (2015)
Leonard Lopate Show: Dennis Lehane's Novel The Drop Begins with a Rescued Puppy (2014) [audio]
Morning Edition: Boozy Birth Of The American Mafia In Lehane's Latest (2012) [audio]

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