- Teaches advanced fiction writing at Harvard
- Wrote his book "Gone Baby Gone" after dealing with abused children in Boston and seeing how the city was unable to help them.
- Instead of attending the Cannes film festival opening day in 2003, he spoke at his alma mater for that years graduating class.
- He graduated from Boston College High School.
- His last day job was as a chauffeur at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston.
- Wrote, produced, and directed a film called Neighborhoods, but could not find anyone to purchase the film. After the success and critical acclaim of Mystic River, he is now working on the script for his Patrick McKenzie/Angela Gennaro novel Prayers for Rain. (2001)
- Both of his parents are from Ireland.
- Taught a class on advanced fiction writing in Harvard University.
- Discovered his passion for writing while in college.
- Irish-American.
- He is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Teaches a Winter Term course at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, In 2006, the course was called 'Writing the Genre/Crossover Novel' and was part of "Writers in Paradise" section.
- His Irish father and mother respectively came from Clonakilty (Co Cork) and Connemara (Co Galway) in the republic of Ireland.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 136, pages 273-276. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- The youngest of five children.
- Residing with family in San Monica, California. (2015)
- His brother Gerry is an actor and member of the "Invisible City Theatre Company" in New York.
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