
Dennis Lehane
Author · 20 books
Dennis Lehane (born Aug 4th, 1966) is an American author. He has written several novels, including the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award winning film, also called Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Kevin Bacon (Lehane can be briefly seen waving from a car in the parade scene at the end of the film). The novel was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and won the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel, the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, and France's Prix Mystere de la Critique.
Series
Books

A Drink Before the War/Darkness, Take My Hand
2004

Coronado
2006

Buzz Books 2012
2012

Red Eye
An Original Short Story
2014

Live by Night
2012

The Best American Noir of the Century
2010

The Drop
2014

Moonlight Mile
2010

FaceOff
2014

World Gone By
2015

Shutter Island
2003

Since We Fell
2017

Mystic River
2001

Prayers for Rain
1999

Small Mercies
2023

Sacred
1997

The Given Day
2008

A Drink Before the War
1994

Darkness, Take My Hand
1996

Gone, Baby, Gone
1998