Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965 in Dorchester , Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American crime writer .
Life
Lehane comes from a Boston family of Irish descent. His father, Mike, worked at Sears Roebuck and his mother, Ann, worked in a cafeteria. He attended Boston College High School and Eckerd College . After leaving school, he began to study teaching and then journalism, without success. He later worked in a number of odd jobs before caring for the mentally retarded and sexually abused children as a therapeutic counselor. The experiences he gained during this time later flowed into his novels.
Lehane wanted to be a writer and completed for the degree program for creative writing at Florida International University . His first manuscript became a thriller rather by accident . He wrote the book in just three weeks in 1990. It wasn't until 1994 that it was released under the title A Drink Before the War . The book is the first in a series about private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro .
Between 1996 and 1999 Lehane wrote one novel per year. After Bill Clinton held Lehane's book Prayers for Rain in his hand as he stepped out of the Air Force , sales of his books skyrocketed.
He became known through his bestselling Wolf Trail , which was successfully filmed in 2003 by Clint Eastwood under the original title Mystic River . In 2009, Martin Scorsese filmed Lehane's novel Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. In 2016 the crime film Live by Night was made , based on the book In der Nacht .
Lehane is married to Angela Bernardo, with whom he has a daughter, for the second time. He now lives in Boston - where his crime novels are also set - and in St. Petersburg , Florida. He teaches creative writing at Eckerd College there.
Awards
- 1994: Shamus Award for Best First Novel for A Drink Before the War
- 1998: Nero Wolfe Award for Sacred
- 1999: Dilys Award and Barry Award for Gone, Baby, Gone
- 2001: German Crime Award - International, 3rd place for No Child's Play
- 2002: German Krimipreis - International, 3rd place for rain magic
- 2002: Anthony Award - Best Novel for Mystic River
- 2002: Barry Award for Mystic River
- 2003: Dilys Award for Mystic River
- 2003: German Crime Prize - International, 3rd place for Wolf's Trail
- 2003: Prix Mystère de la critique for Mystic River
- 2011: Finnish crime prize - International category of the Finnish crime association Suomen dekkariseura for his work that has been translated into Finnish to date
- 2013: Edgar Allan Poe Award for Live by Night .
Works
The Kenzie-Gennaro range
- 1994: A Drink Before the War
- Strictly confidential , German by Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 1999. ISBN 3-548-24603-6
- New translation: One last drink , German by Steffen Jacobs ; Zurich: Diogenes 2016. ISBN 978-3-257-300307
- 1996: Darkness, Take My Hand
- Sender unknown , German from Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 2000. ISBN 3-548-24718-0
- New translation: darkness, take my hand , German by Peter Torberg ; Zurich: Diogenes 2017. ISBN 978-3-257-30043-7
- 1998: Sacred
- In deep mourning , German by Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 1999. ISBN 3-548-24515-3
- New translation: Everything that is sacred to us , German by Peter Torberg; Zurich: Diogenes 2019. ISBN 978-3-257-30044-4
- 1998: Gone, Baby, Gone
- No child's play , German by Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 2000. ISBN 3-548-24841-1
- New translation: Gone Baby Gone , German by Peter Torberg; Zurich: Diogenes 2020. ISBN 978-3-257-30045-1
- 1999: Prayers for Rain
- Rain Magic , German by Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 2001. ISBN 3-548-25173-0
- 2010: Moonlight Mile
- Moonlight Mile , German by Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 2011. ISBN 978-3-548-28350-0
Other works
- 2001: Mystic River
- 2003: Shutter Island
- 2005: Coronado (stage play)
- 2006: Coronado (Stories)
- Coronado , German by Andrea Fischer; Berlin: Ullstein 2007. ISBN 3-548-26668-1
- 2008: The Given Day (novel)
- In the turmoil of those days , German by Sky Nonhoff; Berlin: Ullstein 2010. ISBN 3-550-08754-3
- 2012: Live by Night
- In the night , German from Sky Nonhoff; Zurich: Diogenes 2013. ISBN 3-257-06872-7
- 2014: The Drop ( adaptation of the script of The Drop - Bargeld )
- The Drop - Bargeld , German by Steffen Jacobs ; Zurich: Diogenes 2014. ISBN 978-3-257-06915-0
- 2015: World Gone By
- At the end of a world , German by Steffen Jacobs; Zurich: Diogenes 2015. ISBN 978-3-257-06944-0
- 2017: Since We Fell.
- The abyss in you ; German by Steffen Jacobs and Peter Torberg ; Zurich: Diogenes 2018. ISBN 978-3-257-07039-2
Scripts
- 2004: Episode 3.3 Dead Soldiers of the television series The Wire
- 2006: Episode 4.4 Refugees of the TV series The Wire
- 2008: Episode 5.8 Clarifications of the television series The Wire
- 2013: Episode 4.2 Resignation of the TV series Boardwalk Empire
- 2014: The Drop
- 2017: Episode 1.4 Gods Who Fall of the TV series Mr. Mercedes
- 2017: Episode 1.6 People in the Rain of the TV series Mr. Mercedes
- 2017: Episode 1.7 Willow Lake of the TV series Mr. Mercedes
- 2017: Episode 1.10 Jibber-Jibber Chicken Dinner of the TV series Mr. Mercedes
- 2018: Episode 2.1 Missed You of the TV series Mr. Mercedes
Film adaptations
- 2003: Mystic River - Directed by Clint Eastwood
- 2007: Gone Baby Gone - No Child's Play - Director: Ben Affleck
- 2009: Shutter Island - Director: Martin Scorsese
- 2014: The Drop - Cash - Director: Michaël R. Roskam
- 2016: Live by Night - Director: Ben Affleck
various
- "Nick and Nora Charles - just a lot tougher!" Is how Lehane himself describes his investigator duo. He is alluding to a successful couple from Dashiell Hammett / The Thin Man .
- Lehane writes at night, “ because then there is no danger that the phone will ring or that someone will just come by ”; he simply prefers pen and paper rather than a computer when writing his novels.
- In season 3, episode 21 of the US television series Castle , Lehane has a guest appearance in which he plays himself.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dennis Lehane in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dennis Lehane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official homepage
- Interview in The Guardian, January 24th, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Sky Nonhoff : Dennis Lehane - All past is prologue. in Diogenes Magazin, No. 15 / Spring 2014, pages 4–8
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lehane, Dennis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American crime writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorchester , Boston , Massachusetts , United States |