The Lowell Humanities Series and Gerson Family Lecture Fund present an evening with Boston native and award-winning author Dennis Lehane on March 11 beginning at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Lehane is the author of several international best sellers, three of which (Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River and Shutter Island) have been made into major motion pictures. His other books include A Drink Before the War, The Given Day and his newest publication, World Gone By (Harper Collins, 2015). Lehane was a staff writer for HBO’s “The Wire,” and a writer/producer for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” He recently was interviewed by the Boston Globe.