Dennis Lehane

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Dennis Lehane (2010)

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

Works

The Kenzie-Gennaro range

Other works

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
SURNAME Lehane, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorchester , Boston , Massachusetts , United States