Between these efforts, Ben Affleck directed an adaptation of Gone, Baby, Gone in 2007, while Lehane issued a historical novel, The Given Day (2008), which concerned conflict between Boston police, gangsters and union leaders at the turn of the century. Lehane soon joined the writing staff of the critically acclaimed crime series "The Wire" (HBO, 2002-08), for which he penned three episodes he also continued to generate new crime novels, including the Gothic-tinged Shutter Island (2003), which was made into a feature film by Martin Scorsese in 2009. The success of the book, which won several literary awards, was compounded by the box office and critical victory of the film, which received six Oscar nominations and won two for actors Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. The exposure led to increased sales, which spiked anew when Clint Eastwood optioned his 2001 novel Mystic River to direct as a feature film. Though critically praised, his gritty, neo-noir tales were modest sellers until President Bill Clinton was photographed with a copy of Lehane's 1999 novel, Prayers for Rain. novel, Lehane wrote, produced and directed an independent film titled "Neighborhoods," which went uncompleted he then returned to the Kenzie-Gennaro stories with Darkness, Take My Hand in 1996. After completing Drink, which won the 1995 Shamus Award for Best First P.I. A Drink Before the War introduced readers to the Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, who would serve as protagonists in five subsequent novels between 19. Lehane began work on his first novel as a student at Eckhard College, and completed the book after graduation.
During his formative years, the city was a hotbed of racial and class conflict, which would inform the landscape and characters in his fiction he was also keenly aware of moral corruption among the Jesuit teachers at Boston College High School, which would play a significant part in such novels as Gone, Baby, Gone (1998) and Mystic River (2001). Born in the South Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, Massachusetts on August 4, 1965, he was the youngest of five children by working-class parents.
Boston novelist Dennis Lehane imbued his modern-day detective novels like Gone, Baby, Gone (1998) and Mystic River (2001), and his historical fiction Live By Night (2012), with gritty action, a strong sense of place and a complex moral outlook, which won him legions of fans and served as the basis for several successful films.
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