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The Rainmaker by John Grisham

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Author Biography

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
4813 words, approx. 16 pages
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, G...
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Biography of John Grisham
2756 words, approx. 9.2 pages
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 unde...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Rainmaker Information
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The Rainmaker is a 1995 novel by John Grisham. It was turned into a film in 1997. It is different from most other novels and books in that it is written completely in the simple present...


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The Boston Globe
`Rainmaker': Grisham washes out
06/22/1995: 898 words, approx. 3 pages
THE RAINMAKER By John Grisham Doubleday, 434 pp., $25.95 The secret of John Grisham's success is that he writes novels exposing the villainy of lawyers; the law is a line of work most Americans love to hate. The commercial genius...
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Variety
John Grisham's The Rainmaker. (movie reviews)
11/17/1997: 1,194 words, approx. 4 pages
A Paramount release of a Constellation Films presentation of a Douglas/Reuther production in association with American Zoetrope. Produced by Michael Douglas, Steven Reuther, Fred Fuchs. Co-producer, Georgia Kacandes. Directed, written by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by John Grisham. Narration written...
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AP News
Coppola's new movie to premiere in Rome
9/27/2007: 288 words, approx. 1 pages
Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in a decade, "Youth Without Youth," will have its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival next month, organizers said Thursday.The five-time Academy Award winner's first movie since 1997's "The Rainmaker" stars Tim Roth as a professor-turned-fugitive as World War...
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AP News
Coppola says his film is no comeback
10/22/2007: 278 words, approx. 1 pages
Even though "Youth Without Youth" is his first movie in a decade, Francis Ford Coppola insists he isn't making a comeback to film-making."I never went anywhere," the Oscar-winning director said in an interview Sunday with The Associated Press. "A comeback is like when a fighter...
 


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The Rainmaker
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Essay provides a review of the book "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham.


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