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 1,888,605 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Dennis Lehane is the 3,505th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Mystic river
Mystery, Murder, Male friendship
2001
Gone, Baby, Gone
Fiction, Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators
1998
Prayers for rain
Fiction, Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators
The master of the new noir, Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston’s gritty blue-collar streets.Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark -- the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law can’t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.
1999
A drink before the war
Patrick Kenzie (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Angela Gennaro (Fictitious character)
1994
2003
Shutter Island
Mystery, Mentally ill, Escapes
2003

Page views of Dennis Lehanes by language

Over the past year Dennis Lehane has had the most page views in the with 255,745 views, followed by French (56,272), and Spanish (29,536). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (136.21%), French (81.57%), and Ukrainian (77.58%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dennis Lehane ranks 3,505 out of 7,302. Before 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 127. Before 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 20,380. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dennis Lehane ranks 373. Before 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).

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