WRITER

Dennis Lehane

1965 - Today

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Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Four of his novels have been adapted into films of the same names: Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), and Gone Baby Gone (2007) and Live by Night (2016), both directed by Ben Affleck. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Lehane has received more than 2,052,732 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dennis Lehane is the 3,506th most popular writer (up from 3,685th in 2019), the 4,487th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,920th in 2019) and the 373rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 2.1M

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  • 58.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dennis Lehane ranks 3,506 out of 7,302Before him are Bonaventure des Périers, Hafez Ibrahim, Yang Jiang, Hulda Garborg, Filip Višnjić, and William Cowper. After him are Gonzalo de Berceo, Martin Gray, Adrienne Rich, Theodor Körner, Giuseppe Parini, and Léo Malet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Dennis Lehane ranks 127Before him are Mikhail Prokhorov, Shinji Mikami, Rachida Dati, Kevin McCarthy, Peter Krause, and Rob Pilatus. After him are Vincent Regan, Dominik Hašek, Rob Zombie, Aljoša Asanović, Silas Pereira, and Tomáš Skuhravý.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Lehane ranks 4,487 out of 20,380Before him are Donald Byrd (1932), Edward Condon (1902), Tom Atkins (1935), Jon Polito (1950), Randall Duk Kim (1943), and Vincent Pastore (1946). After him are Catherine Hicks (1951), Nathan Lane (1956), Adrienne Rich (1929), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Lorraine Gary (1937), and Andrew Tate (1986).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dennis Lehane ranks 373Before him are Bell hooks (1952), H.D. (1886), Octavia E. Butler (1947), Gary Snyder (1930), Jonathan Littell (1967), and Jeff Lindsay (1952). After him are Adrienne Rich (1929), Sara Teasdale (1884), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Donald Barthelme (1931), and Howard Pyle (1853).