The fourth novel in the series, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted into a film of the same title in 2007 it was directed by Ben Affleck and starred Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan as Kenzie and Gennaro. Lehane's first novel, A Drink Before the War (1994), which introduced the recurring characters Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, won the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I.

He occasionally made guest appearances as himself in the ABC comedy/drama TV series Castle. 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. Lehane at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festivalĭennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author.

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