Dennis Lehane

Is there a written medium that best-selling author and Dorchester native DENNIS LEHANE can’t master? It wasn’t enough to inspire celebrity-directed and much-acclaimed films with his novels Mystic River (2003, directed by Clint Eastwood), Gone, Baby, Gone (2007, directed by Ben Affleck), and Shutter Island (coming October 2009, directed by Martin Scorcese), but Lehane also won praise for his work on The Wire, the best little HBO underbelly-of-Baltimore drama that you never saw — at least, not until it came out on DVD. Now the literary world is creaming over his latest book, The Given Day, about the post-WWI Boston police strike. We get it, Lehane. You’re brilliant. Brilliant!

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