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	Interview \| Dennis Lehane
		Dennis Lehane is an engaging man, given to laughter, yet with turns of phrase and a tendency to make impatient, flat statements that hint, along with a South Boston accent, at his upbringing in a pretty tough neighborhood.
		Lehane knows Boston and its denizens, and he captures the city's subcultures beautifully -- from the hushed refinement of the old-money suburbs to the grittiness of tacky motels and bail-bond agencies.
		Lehane is eager to point out the similarity between the role of the demoniacal mastermind and his own role as the author.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/lehane1999.html (3415 words)

	Dennis Lehane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dennis Lehane (born 1966) is the author of several novels, including the New York Times-bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film directed by Clint Eastwood, also called Mystic River.
		Lehane is a graduate of Boston College High School, of Eckerd College,and of the nationally recognized graduate program in creative writing at Florida International University.
		Lehane was presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Eckerd College in May 2005 and was appointed to Eckerd's Board of Trustees later that year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_Lehane (382 words)

	Irish American Post
		Lehane, who is first-generation Irish and hails from Dorchester, a southern borough of Boston, was on hand recently at Mystery One Bookshop on Prospect Avenue in Milwaukee and Schwartz's Bookstore in Mequon to sign copies of his new novel.
		Lehane traces his inspiration for this setting to a childhood visit with an uncle to a former mental institution on Boston Harbor's Long Island when he was 8 or 9-years-old.
		Lehane details the head federal marshal's sobering flashbacks to both his military action in WWII and his relationship with his father, a fisherman who was lost at sea in a raging tempest.
	www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/07jun-jul/featured/featured12.html (1676 words)

	Austin Chronicle: Dennis Lehane and His P.I.
		Dennis Lehane has published five mystery novels in a hard-boiled P.I. series set in Boston.
		Lehane's franchise may have a familiar, classic feel, but there's a turbocharged, soulful engine under the hood.
		Dennis Lehane will be at Adventures in Crime and Space (609-A W. Sixth St.), Monday, June 14, 6-8pm.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue41/books.lehane.html (1068 words)

	Interview \| Dennis Lehane
		There was never any doubt in Dennis Lehane's mind that he was going to be a writer.
		Lehane says now that he understood exactly what he was doing when he signed his first book contract: he understood the course he was allowing his life to take.
		Accident or not, Lehane has kept a firm hand on the professional aspects of his writing as well as the creative, understanding as he does the reverberations that a small thing can have on an entire career.
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/lehane.html (4184 words)

	Praise for MYSTIC RIVER (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lehane spares nothing in his wrenching descriptions of how a crime in the neighbiorhood kills the neighborhood, taking it down house by house, family by family.
		Dennis Lehane proves that he is a rare crime novelist with "Mystic River." Cloaked by the trappings of a police procedural, the book is a hauntingly compelling examination of the lies we tell ourselves in order to hide our miseries from ourselves.
		Lehane ventures beyond his acclaimed private eye series with this emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
	www.rittlit.com /reviews/mystic.htm (275 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Lehane: My eye was always on the prize in terms of becoming a writer.
		Dennis Lehane: Eastwood would ask my thoughts, but it was very clear he was in charge on that score, as he should have been.
		Dennis Lehane: It helps to have little talent, but it can be taught as long as you're hungry enough and have the right attitude and realize the mastery of almost any art form takes around 10 years.
	cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20030925001/tscript.htm (2045 words)

	Eckerd College . Commencement 2005 \| Speeches and Remarks
		Dennis Lehane is the kind of student and alumnus that every college would like to have.
		Dennis Lehane was born in 1965 in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, the son of parents who immigrated from Ireland.
		Dennis will spend next year at Eckerd College as a writer in residence, and students who have learned of this already are giddy with anticipation.
	www.eckerd.edu /commencement/05/main.php?f=lehaneintro (550 words)

	Boston's Uncommon Bestseller - 4/14/2003 - Publishers Weekly
		Lehane has parked his navy blue Toyota SUV in the same parking garage where he first worked as an attendant after returning from college and graduate school in Florida.
		Born and raised in Dorchester, one of the poorest Boston neighborhoods, Lehane was the youngest of five children of a pair of Catholic working-class Irish immigrants from Cork.
		For his next, Lehane is promising a trilogy that begins in 1918 with the Boston police strike and traces the reverberations it had in American society.
	www.publishersweekly.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleId=CA291915&display=searchResults&text=mystery (2073 words)

	Authors on the Web -- Dennis Lehane (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Lehane wrote his first novel, A Drink Before the War, in three weeks and subsequently tossed it into a box.
		After writing five novels in the Kenzie/Gennaro series, Lehane thought about how battered his two detectives were and determined that they needed some rest and relaxation after the gun fights, car chases and a number of physical and emotional injuries.
		Lehane does most of his writing in the early morning or very late at night.
	authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0304lehane/lehane-dennis.asp (602 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Lehane's 'Mystic' Mind
		Lehane implied that his character Dave’s abduction was an alternate scenario of what he and his foe might have experienced had their failure to confront the officers about their identities proved more serious.
		Lehane added that he lamented a subplot in both versions of Mystic River involving the character Sean and his estranged wife because it was too peripheral to the core of the movie.
		CRIMSON/ SARAH M.J. Dennis Lehane, author of the 2001 novel Mystic River, which was adopted for the award-winning 2003 film of the same name, talked about the writing process to an audience of hundreds in the Science Center Tuesday.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=503203 (1367 words)

	Dennis Lehane: Hard-Boiled In Boston - 6/21/1999 - Publishers Weekly
		Lehane.' The crime novelist and his wife, Sheila, were married two weeks earlier, and they've just returned from a honeymoon on the West Coast.
		Lehane, slim and with a baby face that makes him look even younger than he is, manages a nonetheless convincing empathy for the tough and harder-edged working class characters of the rough-and-tumble neighborhood he grew up in.
		Lehane's repeated theme of child abuse stems from his work with abused and mentally handicapped children while at college and a post-undergraduate job counseling delinquents from the state juvenile hall in St. Petersburg.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA166993.html?pubdate=6/21/1999&display=archive (1835 words)

	In a related story - The Boston Globe
		Dennis said he had Gerry in mind when he wrote the part of the father.
		Gerry and Dennis are the youngest of five siblings; the next one, another brother, is six years older than Gerry.
		Dennis, who is working on a novel about the Boston Police strike of 1919, said he would love to bring ''Coronado" to Boston.
	boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/11/29/in_a_related_story (1468 words)

	Authors on the Web -- Dennis Lehane
		Dennis Lehane wrote his first novel, A Drink Before the War, in three weeks and subsequently tossed it into a box.
		Dennis Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
		Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0304lehane/lehane-dennis.asp (602 words)

	Eckerd College \| News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Lehane, a New York Times best-selling author and an alumnus of the College, has accepted our invitation to be the speaker for the 42nd Commencement of Eckerd College.
		Dennis is a 1988 graduate of Eckerd's creative writing program and former student of novelist Sterling Watson and poet Peter Meinke.
		Dennis teaches fiction writing and serves as a member of the board of directors for a low-residency MFA program sponsored by Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA.
	www.eckerd.edu /news/news-detail.php?id=1162 (381 words)

	Gayle Lynds: Dennis Lehane, Gayle Lynds and Stuart Woods tell you how to create a great plot
		Dennis Lehane, who lives in Boston, was born and raised in Dorchester, Mass.
		Lehane: I put a character on the page and I have him want something-it could be as simple as a cup of coffee-and he goes out to get that thing.
		Lehane: They either don't have one, in which case their main character sits around thinking and awkwardly telling us, the reader, who he is and what he looks like, or the author starts with a bang, going right into "high-concept" action without us knowing a damn thing about the characters.
	www.gaylelynds.com /plotting.html (2323 words)

	Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Lehane takes you into a world of triple crosses, elaborate lies, and shrouded motives, where the villains may be more moral than the victims, the missing should possibly stay missing, and those who go looking for them may not come back alive.
		Lehane is in absolute control of this material, pointedly commenting on many of society's ills along the way.
		Lehane is great a depressing you and then relieving the pressure in smooth alternation.
	www.awardannals.com /detail/0380730359 (1435 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Dennis Lehane
		Dennis Lehane: I never know what to feel about my newest books— I need a lot of distance before I can decide if I like the book—but the best thing about Shutter Island is that I accomplished exactly what I'd set out to do.
		Lehane: I think I'm really contrary by nature, so when Mystic River was—and I'm very grateful—praised for being literature as opposed to being genre, on the one hand I was over the moon because that's what I'd wanted to do.
		Lehane: The highest ambition for a writer—and I think most would admit this, most good writers or people who want to be good—is the desire to be read after you're dead.
	www.powells.com /authors/lehane.html (3619 words)

	Crescent Blues\| Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos: Hard-boiled Buddies
		Dennis Lehane and George Pelecanos write hard-boiled, noir mysteries set in their respective hometowns, Boston and Washington, D.C. Lehane's Anthony and Shamus Award winning series follows private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela (Angie) Gennaro, who still live in the blue-collar Irish/Italian neighborhood where they grew up.
		Dennis Lehane: There were only the two of us; we just met.
		Dennis Lehane: I think that you have to read -- that sounds patently obvious -- but you have to read a book.
	www.crescentblues.com /2_4issue/lehpel.shtml (1687 words)

	Dennis Lehane Photo Album 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lehane is the author of seven novels, among them Mystic River which was made into a major motion picture by director Clint Eastwood.
		Lehane, who has been writing stories since he was eight years old, visited with the students to discuss with them the craft of writing.
		Dennis Lehane is the author of A Drink Before the War, Darkness, Take My Hand, Sacred, Gone, Baby, Gone, Prayers for Rain, Mystic River, and Shutter Island.
	www.watertown.k12.ma.us /cunniff/Cunniff_Fifth_Grade/Dennis_Lehane_Photo.html (130 words)

	bookideas.com: Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane
		Dennis Lehane's novels have often been praised and this one is certainly not going to let him down.
		Lehane's characters, such as Patrick and Angie, go from strength to strength, being developed all the time.
		Lehane is one author who deserves a lot more respect than he gets, in the UK especially.
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=373 (343 words)

	"Sacred" by Dennis Lehane
		I bought Dennis Lehane's first two crime novels at the same time.
		Lehane's writing is also literate, and he imbues Kenzie with much of the self-searching found in James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux character.
		Lehane fills the book with pairs: things sacred and things that cause (or are full of) grief; a father and daughter, driven apart by evil forces; partners brought together by those same forces.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9798/08/24/sacred.html (478 words)

	Amazon.com: Mystic River: Dennis Lehane: Books
		Lehane tugs delicately on the strands that weave this neighborhood together, testing for their strengths and weaknesses; this novel seems as much anthropological case study as thriller.
		Lehane ventures beyond his acclaimed private eye series with this emotionally wrenching crime drama about the effects of a savage killing on a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
		Written with a sensitivity toward character that exceeds his previous efforts, the story tracks the friendship of three boys from a defining moment in their childhood, when 11-year-old Dave Boyle was abducted off the streets of East Buckingham and sexually molested by two men before managing to escape.
	www.amazon.com /Mystic-River-Dennis-Lehane/dp/0380731851 (1282 words)

	Dennis Lehane's Boston private eye Patrick Kenzie searches for the answer
		Lehane captures the friendship and the devotion, the stresses and the strains, that bind these three characters.
		In addition to fine characterizations and edgy dialogue, Prayers for Rain is packed with punchy action sequences, uneasy stretches where the reader squirms in anticipation of impending disaster, and plenty of dark humor.
		Dennis Lehane has all the tools of a future Grand Master -- the dialogue of Parker, the plotting of Block, the psychological suspense of Rendell -- and in Prayers for Rain he shows them off to fine effect.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/06/27/lehane.html (737 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Mind Games with Dennis Lehane
		Lehane has an uncanny ear for dialogue and conversation.
		Lehane uses several well-known set-pieces but, to my mind, succeeds in preventing them from becoming mere trite contrivances.
		Lehane seems anxious to avoid the former but, in the bargain, might just have compromised the book, ever so slightly.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/07/23/095321.php (1268 words)

	Alibris: Dennis Lehane
		Lehane's exploration of the three friends' intertwined, checkered pasts is set against the backdrop of working...
		The fifth novel in Dennis Lehane's Boston-based series finds private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his beautiful sidekick Angela Gennaro in a battle of wits against a killer whose intense psychological manipulation drives his victims to suicide.
		Boston psychiatrist, Diandra Warren, fears that her life and that of her son may be in danger when one of her patients reveals that she has been abused by a Irish Mafia thug.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Lehane,Dennis (781 words)

	Novelist has the hot hand (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dennis Lehane is on Hollywood's A-list of novelists -- top of the list, we'd say.
		When we chatted with Lehane, he had just cinched a deal with Ben Affleck to adapt and direct an earlier novel, "Gone, Baby, Gone," because Affleck's fiancee, Jennifer Lopez, got a hankering to play the book's hard-boiled detective.
		Lehane was involved in every step of "Mystic River." That's because Eastwood insisted on it, and he's not a man to cross.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/06/MO6091.DTL (586 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Dennis Lehane - Books: Meet the Writers
		Dennis Lehane knows Boston like the back of his hand.
		The idea for his breakout novel, 2001's stand-alone thriller Mystic River, came to Lehane while he was still writing the Kenzie-Genarro installment Prayers for Rain.
		Lehane's career shows no signs of slowing down, Since the success of his Boston-based mysteries, he has broadened his oeuvre to include television screenplays and short stories -- one of which, "Until Gwen," was adopted into a successful, limited-run play.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=883448&z=y (987 words)

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