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Dennis Lehane
Birth at
4 August 1965
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Born August 4, 1965 in a family of Irish immigrants in Dorchester (Massachusetts, USA), which in the 70s was a city on the brink of civil war. Subsequently, Dennis Lehane made this suburb of Boston the setting of his works. Dennis was the youngest child in a large family. He attended Boston College High School (Boston Jesuit Preparatory School), Eckerd College and Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked as a salesman in a bookstore, a
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Born August 4, 1965 in a family of Irish immigrants in Dorchester (Massachusetts, USA), which in the 70s was a city on the brink of civil war. Subsequently, Dennis Lehane made this suburb of Boston the setting of his works. Dennis was the youngest child in a large family. He attended Boston College High School (Boston Jesuit Preparatory School), Eckerd College and Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Before becoming a professional writer, he worked as a salesman in a bookstore, a parker in a car park, a limousine driver, a consultant on working with troubled and mentally handicapped children.
In 1990, he began writing stories. Lehane’s debut novel, The Throat Before the Battle, was released in 1994 and received the Shamus Award (for creating an interesting image of a private investigator). However, this novel was written earlier, back in 1991, when Dennis was a college student.
Lehane works in the style of hard-boiled, recognizing the influence on his work of another Boston master of the detective genre - Robert Parker.
Most of the novels of the writer are included in the series about Dorchester detectives Patrick Kenzi and Angie Ginnaro.
Lehane lives in Boston and St. Petersburg, Florida, where he teaches at Eckerd College. In addition to writing novels, he is the author of three episodes of The Wire (in the third, fourth and fifth seasons). He is currently developing a television show about Boston in the 1970s.
The novel Mystic River was adapted in 2002 by Clint Eastwood. In addition to the Shamus award, Lehane's books have won Anthony, Dilys and Niro Wolfe awards.