2010 Presenters
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane has proven himself to be a master of both crime and literary fiction.
In 2003, his novel Mystic River, which was a finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award and the winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for fiction, was adapted into film and quickly garnered six Academy Award nominations (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins each winning Academy Awards). And in the fall of 2009, Shutter Island, the film based on Lehane’s best-selling 2003 novel of the same title, opened to rave reviews.
He is the author of The New York Times bestseller Mystic River; Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone (also a major motion picture); Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel; and, most recently, The Given Day.
He has also edited and contributed to the short story collection Boston Noir, which features original stories by establish writers all set in Boston, and he has written the introduction to a reissue of "the best crime novel ever written" (Elmore Leonard) by George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Lehane splits his time between the Boston area and Florida.
LINKS:
The Boston Phoenix interviews Lehane (3 parts)
Lehane's interview about Shutter Island, Animal Rescue and The Given Day
The New York Times reviews The Given Day
The Washington Post reviews The Given Day
Hallie Ephron reviews The Friends of Eddie Coyle for The Boston Globe
