Quincy 400 Hosts International Bestseller Author Dennis Lehane to Welcome him back home!

On Thursday October 23, over 400 plus guests attended a lavish evening at Granite Links with food and beverages, Sponsored by Quincy 400, Eastern Bank plus The Next Chapter Books!

In honor of Boston Native Author, Writer, Producer Dennis Lehane at a Lecture, Meet and Greet, along with a Book Signing of his published 14 Novels.

This anticipated event brought the hundreds of area fans to hear and learn of his journey from his First Novel, “A Drink Before the War”, published in 1994. Which began a series of crime novels. He quickly became New York Times Best-Selling Author with novels such as Gone, Baby, Gone in 1998, Mystic River in 2001 His Most Famous Novel),

Shutter Island in 2003, The Given Day in 2008, Small Mercies in 2023 plus many more.

Dennis Lehane has had his Novels adapted to Major Films. Besides his Book writing he has written for Netflix, HBO, plus Apple TV. He is also in development of his next Series for Apple TV along with adapting three of Author Stephen Kings Novels.

With Dennis Lehane’s organizational brilliance his passion is felt in his works!

With him seated on stage along with Moderator Rob “Hardy” Poole, from 98.5 Sports Hub , begins his Introduction of Author Lehane by giving the audience abit of back story of his life in Boston, talking about he was raised in Dorchester, his Education and his entrance as a published Author. Along with the Awards Dennis Lehane has received.

He turns the interview over to Dennis Lehane who quickly enlightened his guests all fixated on every word and stories, plus facts and he told all of us that he “Loved the Quarries”, which reminded him of a story he heard about, “A young gentleman diving in the Quincy Quarries to be impaled by a car antenna thru his eye”! You could hear the gasps coming from the guests. He did mention he wasn’t sure if it was true or not but it definitely made his stories abit more interesting to hear!

He recalled as a youth that living in Dorchester, “ That all the girls were heavily Catholic…..so he came to Quincy”! A bit of levity made the audience laugh! You could tell he was very comfortable speaking honestly and how he enjoys to write about his characters as “just people” and characters in “extreme situations”. He cares about the journey his characters takes plus he premised that his next Novel might have “A Tiger Mom and let her loose against the Irish Mob in Boston”. Dennis Lehane spoke about his time with his “Favorite Actor”, Ray Liotta with abit of levity. Toward the end of the lecture he mentioned to a very happy room full of guests that,

“Small Mercies soon to be shot here”.

He spent 50 years here in Boston before moving to Los Angeles with his wife.

After, he took questions from the audience and after a huge line was formed for his one on one book signing! The room was electric with joy.

A gracious and grateful Guest of Honor, Dennis Lehane, truly gave his adoring fans a night to remember!

A heartfelt “THANK YOU”, to our Mayor Koch, and all Quincy Staff that made this Event Possible and Memorable!

By: John Russo