page_title: Dennis Lehane
section_title: Teaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Dennis Lehane / Career / Teaching career
caption_attribution_description: Dennis Lehane by David Shankbone
context_page_description: Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. Of these, three were adapted as films of the same name: 2003’s “Mystic River”, directed by Clint Eastwood, which won several awards; 2007’s “Gone Baby Gone”; and 2010’s “Shutter Island” directed by Martin Scorsese.
context_section_description: Since becoming a literary success, Lehane has taught at several colleges. He taught fiction writing and serves as a member of the board of directors for the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He has also taught advanced fiction writing at Harvard University, where his classes quickly filled up.
  In May 2005, Lehane was presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Eckerd College and was appointed to Eckerd's Board of Trustees later that year. As of June 2006, he was living temporarily in St. Petersburg, Florida, and teaching as writer-in-residence at Eckerd (usually during the spring semester), where he also co-directs the Writers in Paradise conference each January.
caption: Lehane at Barnes & Noble Union Square, New York City, August 15, 2006
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