Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several novels the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Of these, his fourth, Gone, Baby, Gone, was adapted as a 2007 film by the same name.

Lehane was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. He continues to live in the Boston area, where he sets most of his books. He spent summers on Fieldston Beach in Marshfield. Lehane is the youngest of five children. His father was a foreman for Sears amp Roebuck, and his mother worked in a Boston public school cafeteria both of his parents immigrated from Ireland. 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. Gerry is a member of the Invisible City Theatre Company.

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