John Grisham, author portrait
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John Grisham

John Grisham is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Camino Ghosts, The Exchange: After the Firm, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
Framed
The Exchange
Camino Ghosts
The Boys from Biloxi
Sparring Partners
The Judge's List
Sooley
A Time for Mercy
Camino Winds
The Guardians
The Reckoning
Theodore Boone: The Accomplice
The Rooster Bar
Camino Island
The Whistler
Witness to a Trial
Rogue Lawyer
Theodore Boone: The Scandal
Partners
Gray Mountain
Theodore Boone: The Fugitive
Sycamore Row
A Time to Kill
The Racketeer
Fetching Raymond: A Story from the Ford County Collection
Theodore Boone: The Activist
Calico Joe
The Litigators
Theodore Boone: The Accused
The Confession
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
Playing for Pizza
Theodore Boone: The Abduction
The Associate
Skipping Christmas
Ford County: Stories

John Grisham on the writers that inspire him | authorcuts

SYCAMORE ROW trailer

THE WHISTLER trailer

John Grisham on his literary influences | Author Shorts

John Grisham on his regimented writing routine | Author Shorts

Books

Framed
The Exchange
Camino Ghosts
The Boys from Biloxi
Sparring Partners
The Judge's List
Sooley
A Time for Mercy
Camino Winds
The Guardians
The Reckoning
Theodore Boone: The Accomplice
The Rooster Bar
Camino Island
The Whistler
Witness to a Trial
Rogue Lawyer
Theodore Boone: The Scandal
Partners
Gray Mountain
Theodore Boone: The Fugitive
Sycamore Row
A Time to Kill
The Racketeer
Fetching Raymond: A Story from the Ford County Collection
Theodore Boone: The Activist
Calico Joe
The Litigators
Theodore Boone: The Accused
The Confession
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
Playing for Pizza
Theodore Boone: The Abduction
The Associate
Skipping Christmas
Ford County: Stories

Media

John Grisham on the writers that inspire him | authorcuts

SYCAMORE ROW trailer

THE WHISTLER trailer

John Grisham on his literary influences | Author Shorts

John Grisham on his regimented writing routine | Author Shorts

A letter to professors from Corban Addison, author of Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

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