Grisham, John

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Name (Hebrew)
גרישם, ג'ון, 1955-
Name (Latin)
Grisham, John
Other forms of name
Grisham, John, 1955-
Grishėm, Dzhon
גרישם, ג'ון
Date of birth
1955
Place of birth
Jonesboro (Ark.)
Place of residence/headquarters
Charlottesville (Va.)
Oxford (Miss.)
Field of activity
Acting
Fiction--Authorship
Motion picture authorship
Motion pictures--Production and direction
Law
Fiction
Occupation
Producers and directors
Actors
Motion picture producers and directors
Novelists
Screenwriters
Authors
Lawyers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 7449742
Wikidata: Q106465
Library of congress: n 88231236
Sources of Information
  • A time to kill, c1989:CIP t.p. (John Grisham)
  • Firma, 1993:t.p. (Dzhon Grishėm)
  • IMDb, March 17, 2019:(John Grisham; writer, producer, actor)
  • The firm, c1991:CIP t.p. (John Grisham) data sheet (born February 8, 1955)
  • Wikipedia, January 11, 2011(John Grisham; born in Jonesboro, Arkansas; splits time between a home near Charlottesville, Virginia and a farm-home outside Oxford, Mississippi; practiced law for a decade before starting to write full-time)
  • Wikipedia, October 7, 2024(John Grisham; John Ray Grisham Jr.; American novelist, lawyer, former Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives)
  • His A time to kill, c1989:CIP t.p. (John Grisham)
  • His The firm, c1991:CIP t.p. (John Grisham) data sheet (b. 2/8/55)
  • His Firma, 1993:t.p. (Dzhon Grishėm)
  • The Author's מדלגים על החג, 2005.
  • Wikipedia, WWW, Jan. 11, 2011(b. in Jonesboro, Arkansas; splits time between a home near Charlottesville, Virginia and a farm-home outside Oxford, Mississippi; practiced law for a decade before starting to write full-time)
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Wikipedia description:

John Ray Grisham Jr. ( GRISH-əm; born February 8, 1955) is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. It was later adapted into the 1996 feature film of the same name. Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies, and was also adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series that continues the story ten years after the events of the film and novel. Seven of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas.

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