What is Dennis Lehane?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Dennis Lehane | image = Dennis Lehane BBF 2010 Shankbone crop.jpg| imagesize = 200px | caption = Lehane at the 2010 [[Brooklyn Book Festival]] | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|8|4}} | birth_place = [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, screenwriter | nationality = American | period = | genre = [[Crime fiction]], [[mystery fiction]] | subject = | movement = | alma_mater = [[Eckerd College]]<br>[[Florida International University]] | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.dennislehane.com}} |spouse=Sheila Lawn (divorced)<br>Angela Bernardo (divorced) |children = 2 }} '''Dennis Lehane''' (born August 4, 1965)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2005/08/04|title= Literary and Historical Notes|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= August 4, 2005|work= The Writer's Almanac|publisher= American Public Media|access-date=December 30, 2012}}</ref> is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels. His best known book is ''[[A Drink Before the War]]''. Some of his books were made into movies: ''[[Mystic River (movie)|Mystic River]]'', directed by [[Clint Eastwood]], which won several awards; 2007’s ''[[Gone Baby Gone]]''; and 2010’s ''[[Shutter Island (movie)|Shutter Island]]'' directed by [[Martin Scorsese]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lehane, Dennis}} [[Category:1965 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Boston]] {{US-bio-stub}}