Dennis Lehane was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He has written eight novels, A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR; DARKNESS, TAKE MY HAND; GONE, BABY, GONE; PRAYER FOR RAIN; MYSTIC RIVER; SHUTTER ISLAND; and THE GIVEN DAY.

MYSTIC RIVER was a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award, and it won both the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best Novel as well as the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction given by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Lehane worked as a counselor with mentally handicapped and abused children, waited tables, parked cars, drove limos, worked in bookstores, and loaded tractor-trailers. His one regret is that no one ever gave him a chance to tend bar. He lives in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.

Books by Dennis Lehane

Moonlight Mile

by Dennis Lehane - Fiction, Thriller

The Given Day

by Dennis Lehane - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Shutter Island

by Dennis Lehane - Fiction, Suspense

Mystic River

by Dennis Lehane - Fiction, Thriller

A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, MYSTIC RIVER is also an epic novel of love, loyalty, faith, and family. Twenty-five years after a terrible incident destroyed their boyhood friendship, three Boston men are brought together by another tragedy --- causing conflict and finally bringing to light what happened all those years ago.