Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. He has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film. His novel Shutter Island was adapted into a film by Martin Scorsese in 2010. Lehane is a graduate of Florida International Univers...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Gone Baby Gone
2018
Screenplay
Live by Night
2016
Novel
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
The Drop
2014
Screenplay, Executive Producer, Short Story
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where f...
Shutter Island: Into the Lighthouse
2010
as Self
This thoughtful, often fascinating featurette focuses on the psychiatric aspects of "Shutter Island" and how consultant James Gilligan counseled the a...
Shutter Island
2010
Novel
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his ...
Gone Baby Gone
2007
Novel
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hi...
Mystic River
2003
Novel
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Colt
N/A
Writer
The story of three teenagers suddenly thrown into the adult world. They know nothing of life, have always lived with their parents in a poor mining to...
American Son
N/A
Screenplay
A man, who after falling under the control of a ruthless mobster while in prison, builds a multiracial crime syndicate, takes down his mentor, and ear...
A Bostonian
N/A
Short Story
Mild-mannered rare book proprietor Nathaniel Dodson meets a woman claiming to be his sister, and is rumored to be in possession of a rare and extremel...