Known for Writing
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 University in Miami, Florida. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Lehane, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born
August 4, 1965 (age 61)
Birthplace
Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Filmography
12 films, 19 shows


Live by Night
2016 · 2h 9m · US
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.


Shutter Island
2010 · 2h 18m · US
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 efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.


Gone Baby Gone
2007 · 1h 53m · US
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 hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.


Mystic River
2003 · 2h 18m · US
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.