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It's hard to sell a book of short stories. But not if you're John Grisham.
He’s sold more than 250 million books around the world — but even John Grisham is worried about the future of the printed word in the wake of deep discounting of best-sellers by major retailers and the advent of e-book readers like Amazon’s Kindle.
Novelist John Grisham has told a North Carolina gathering that he supports changes to the criminal justice system he thinks would reduce the chances of an innocent person being convicted.
Officials at Duquesne (doo-KAYN') University in Pittsburgh are upset that best-selling author John Grisham mentions the school in connection with a fictional gang rape in his latest novel.
A federal judge has dismissed a libel lawsuit filed against best-selling author John Grisham and two other writers over books they wrote about the wrongful conviction of two men in a 1982 murder.
TelevisionThe big news last week was that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was wearing a protective boot on his ankle while walking to girlfriend Gisele Bundchen’s apartment in New York to bring her flowers. This week the news so far is that Brady has been absent from Patriots’ practices. Get the picture? Super Bowl XLII is going to be about Brady and his foot. There will be in-depth analysis of the foot provided by medical experts, segments about great sore ankles of the past, and commercials for foot powder. Somewhere amid all that foot traffic — and trailers showing Tom Petty gearing up to do the halftime show — the New York Giants will engage in football to try and prevent the Patriots from completing a perfect season. Put your feet up and watch. (Fox, Sunday, 6 p.m. ET)
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton says her presidency would not be a one-way street, but rather one where citizens will help her achieve the goals of universal health care, energy conservation and education reform.
John Grisham's latest book, "The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town," has the usual touches fans have come to expect from the master of the legal thriller: suspense, shock, even a wrongful conviction and near-execution. But this time, the tale is true.
How can it be tragic to be innocent? Perhaps when someone has been wrongly convicted of a crime and spends many years in prison, sometimes on death row, only to be freed when it's found that he didn't commit the crime.
10 Questions for John Grisham - TIMEI just read his first non-fiction book and it was great. This interview revealed neat things about his writing habits and personal beliefs.
John Grisham's New Novel, "The Appeal," Will Bring Election Rigging Into the Public Eye"The Appeal" is John Grisham's handy primer on a timely subject: how to rig an election. Blow by blow, this not-very-fictitious-sounding novel depicts the tactics by which political candidates either can be propelled or ambushed and their campaigns can be subverted.
The end is nearing, and the seventh and final book of the Harry Potter series hits shelves for sale just under one day from now. To mark this occasion, the cyber world has been flooded with opinions of two varieties: condemnation and praise.
Scott Turow is no John Grisham, and that's good, because one Grisham is enough.
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