john grisham

     

In 1996, 7 years after giving up law, he returned to a Mississippi courtroom & won a case for an old client

Trivia about john grisham

  • He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000
  • With no "Time to Kill", he recently turned out another legal thriller, "The Street Lawyer"
  • In Feb. 1999 his "The Testament" was London's top hardback & his "The Street Lawyer" was top paperback
  • In a departure from legal thrillers, he tackled football in "Playing for Pizza"
  • A library at Mississippi State University has a room honoring this "Pelican Brief" author
  • In 2000 he published "The Brethren" about 3 imprisoned ex-judges
  • In 2003 he returned with a new legal thriller, "The King of Torts"
  • In 1997 this author of "The Firm" & "The Rainmaker" published a new legal thriller, "The Partner"
  • This author took "The Firm" stance of telling Arkansas State grads to "leave the country"
  • This author of legal thrillers returned to the real courtroom in '96 & won a career-best $683,500 verdict
  • A young girl's trial testimony against her rapist inspired his novel "A Time to Kill"
  • He wrote his first 2 novels, "A Time to Kill" & "The Firm", while serving in the Mississippi legislature
  • His 1992 novel "The Pelican Brief" was a national bestseller
  • His No. 1 bestseller "The Rainmaker" was dedicated "to American trial lawyers"
  • It's an open & shut case: his "Runaway Jury" was the bestselling hardback fiction work of 1996
  • An attorney must search the Brazilian rain forest for a missing heir in his novel "The Testament"
  • He dedicated his bestseller "The Rainmaker" "To American Trial Lawyers"
  • He wrote "A Time To Kill" while serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives
  • After "The Pelican Brief" in 1992, he followed up with "The Client" in 1993
  • He departed from legal thrillers with "Bleachers", about the impending death of a high school football coach
  • (Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.) Directing movies based on this author's "The Client" & "A Time to Kill" was like getting paid to go to law school
  • "A Time to Kill"(1989)
  • His "Skipping Christmas" & "A Painted House" were among the Top 10 bestselling books of 2001