He is a graduate of Boston College High School (a Jesuit prep school), Eckerd College (where he found his passion for writing), and the graduate program in creative writing at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has two children from a previous marriage. Gerry is a member of the Invisible City Theatre Company. His brother, Gerry Lehane, who is two and a half years older than Dennis, trained at the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence and became an actor in New York in 1990. Lehane is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Both of his parents emigrated from Ireland. His father was a foreman for Sears & Roebuck, and his mother worked in a Boston public school cafeteria. He spent summers on Fieldston Beach in Marshfield. He lived in the Boston area most of his life, where he sets most of his books, but now lives in southern California. Lehane was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. His short story, 'Animal Rescue' was also adapted into the film The Drop, noted for being the final film role for actor James Gandolfini.

Four of his novels were adapted as films of 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. He has published more than a dozen novels the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. It is a mesmerizing and wrenching work that only Dennis Lehane could write.Lehane at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festivalĭennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched-asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who don’t take kindly to any threat to their business. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors.

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane