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Name: John Grisham
Birth Date: 1955
Place of Birth: Arkansas, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, attorney

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Biography of John Grisham
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The author of fourteen back-to-back bestsellers, many of which have been turned into blockbuster movies, John Grisham can count his revenues and copies sold of his legal thrillers in the hundreds of millions. Translated into more than thirty languages,...
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Biography of John Grisham
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Popular novelist John Grisham (born 1955) is the author of several thrillers that have been made into blockbuster films. His works, which center around the legal profession, include A Time to Kill,The Firm,The Client, and The Pelican Brief. It is no...


Quotations
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John Grisham Quotes
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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I...


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Grisham, John (1955—) Summary
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John Grisham's contributions to the world of popular culture in the late twentieth century are enormous. Not only is he largely responsible for the elevation of legal thrillers to a level of popularity never before seen in literary circles, but...
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John Grisham Information
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John Grisham, the second oldest of five siblings, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Southern Baptist parents of modest means. His father worked as a construction worker and a cotton farmer; his mother was a homemaker.[1] After moving frequently, the...


News and Journals
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Grisham Gets Serious.(John Grisham)
01/01/2001: 4,952 words, approx. 17 pages
The master of the legal thriller takes a slow walk through an Arkansas childhood. "THE HILL PEOPLE AND THE MEXICANS arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with...
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John Grisham, Chasing the Ambulance-Chasers
02/03/2003: 855 words, approx. 3 pages
THE KING OF TORTS By John Grisham Doubleday. 376 pp. $27.95John Grisham's new novel is several things -- a great read, a love story, a parable of sorts -- but above all it is a scathing attack on the lawyers who have...
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John Grisham lives la dolce vita
10/2/2007: 1,120 words, approx. 4 pages
It's hard to shock John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller.But even he was blindsided by something he came across on a recent trip to Italy.It wasn't a crooked lawyer or an on-the-take judge. It wasn't even a greedy corporation. What he found was...
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Presidential candidates' fictional taste
5/14/2007: 394 words, approx. 1 pages
Presidential candidates are seeing pieces of themselves in the books they've been reading lately.Barack Obama recently finished "Gilead," a novel about an old man's words to his 7-year-old son. The man, in Gilead, Iowa, believes he's on the verge of death and wants his son...
 


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