0_Wizard
Have you ever read any of John Grisham's books? They have been translated into 42 languages.
His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.
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John Grisham
John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955) is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide. John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in Mississippi from January 1984 to September 1990. His first novel, "A Time to Kill," was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it.
The Litigators
The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his 25th fiction novel overall. "The Litigators" is about a two-partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a cholesterol reduction drug by a major pharmaceutical drug company. The protagonist is a Harvard Law School grad big law firm burnout who stumbles upon the boutique and joins it only to find himself litigating against his old law firm in this case. The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham's prior novels. The theme of a young lawyer being fed up with a giant law firm and bolting away to a less lucrative but more satisfying career is shared with "The Associate".
The Associate (novel)
The Associate is a legal thriller by John Grisham. His 21st novel, it was published by Doubleday and released in the United States on January 26, 2009. As an idealistic graduate of Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the "Yale Law Journal", Kyle McAvoy has the promise of a highly successful career, although after graduation, he intends to devote three years to public service before applying for employment with a prestigious firm. His plans are derailed when he is approached by two FBI agents (or such they seem) who interrogate him and then pass him on to a mysterious man known only as Bennie Wright.
The Firm (2012 TV series)
The Firm is a Canadian-American one-hour television drama that began airing in January 2012 on Global in Canada and NBC in the United States and in February 2012 on AXN, and is a sequel to the 1991 John Grisham novel of the same name and its 1993 film adaptation. The television adaptation is set ten years after the novel and film. On February 3, 2012, NBC announced that the series would be pulled from its Thursday 10/9c slot immediately, and placed on Saturdays at 9/8c starting on February 18. AXN began broadcasts in over 125 territories and countries on February 19. On May 13, 2012, NBC confirmed that "The Firm" had been canceled.
Liad Shoham
Liad Shoham (born 1971) is an Israeli writer and lawyer. He is Israel's  leading thriller writer. dubbed the Israeli John Grisham. Liad Shoham was born in Givatayim. His mother was the principal "Tihon Hadash" high school for many years. His father worked for many years in Ministry of Defense. In his childhood, Shoham lived a few years in Paris, due to his father work. When they came back to Israel they settled down in Petah Tikva. Shoham served in the Intelligence Corps. His LLB is from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and he did his LLM in International Commercial Law at the London School of Economics.
A Time to Kill (Grisham novel)
A Time to Kill is a 1988 legal thriller by John Grisham. It was Grisham's first novel. The novel was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing. When Doubleday published "The Firm", Wynwood released a trade paperback of "A Time to Kill", which became a bestseller. Dell published the mass market paperback months after the success of "The Firm", bringing Grisham to widespread popularity among readers. Doubleday eventually took over the contract for "A Time to Kill" and released a special hardcover edition. In 1996, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson.
Mississippi State University
The Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a land-grant university in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States, partially in the town of Starkville and mostly in an unincorporated area. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the official designation for the area that encompasses the university. It is classified in the category of "R2: Doctoral Universities – Higher Research Activity" by the Carnegie Foundation. The university has campuses in Starkville (main), Meridian, Biloxi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. The university began as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (or Mississippi A&M), one of the national land-grant colleges established after Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862.
1_Apprentice
I actually haven't read anything by John Grisham. 42 Languages! That's amazing. What kind of novelist is he?
0_Wizard
He wrote legal thrillers. He was also an attorney and politician. 
John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955) is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers.
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John Grisham
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John Grisham
John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955) is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide. John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in Mississippi from January 1984 to September 1990. His first novel, "A Time to Kill," was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it.
Camino Island
Camino Island is a crime fiction thriller novel written by John Grisham and released on June 6, 2017, by Doubleday. The book is a departure from Grisham's main subject of legal thrillers and focuses on stolen rare books. Grisham made his first extensive book tour in 25 years to publicize the book. The book begins with the theft of five rare F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts from the Firestone Library at Princeton University and then embarks on a journey to a resort town on a Florida island in search of clues about the heist. Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation and an "underground agency" of investigators working for Princeton's insurance company pursue the perpetrators in the black market, the story focuses on a novelist who pursues an investigation of the heist.
Genre fiction
Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. Genre fiction is generally distinguished from literary fiction. Some writing may be considered both literary and genre, such as the science fiction writing of Nobel laureate Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood. Georges Simenon, the creator of the Maigret detective novels, has been described by André Gide as 'the most novelistic of novelists in French literature'. The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction, western, inspirational and horror.
Webster Hubbell
Webster Lee "Webb" Hubbell (born 1948) is an American author, lecturer, consultant, advocate and Arkansas lawyer who practiced law from 1974-1993 in Pulaski County. He has held executive level positions in government and industry including: U.S. Associate Attorney General, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Mayor of Little Rock, Managing Partner of the second largest law firm in Arkansas, and Executive and Chief Counsel for a large Washington based commercial insurance company. While he practiced law he was Mayor of Little Rock from 1979 until 1982, one of the nation's youngest mayors.
Erotic thriller
An erotic thriller is a film subgenre defined as a thriller with a thematic basis in illicit romance or erotic fantasy. Most erotic thrillers contain scenes of softcore sex and nudity, but the frequency and explicitness of those scenes varies. Though similar films appeared as early as the 1960s, erotic thrillers emerged as a distinct genre in the late 1980s, bolstered by the popular success of Adrian Lyne’s "Fatal Attraction" in 1987 and a quickly expanding domestic and international market for softcore adult entertainment on cable television and home video. The genre had a classic period of growth and expansion in the 1990s, but by the early 2000s declined in production and popular appeal.
Jilliane Hoffman
Jilliane Hoffman is an American writer of legal thrillers. She was born on Long Island and attended both undergraduate and law school at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Before starting to write, Hoffman experienced the true life of a lawyer while working as an assistant state's attorney prosecuting felonies in Miami, Florida from 1992 to 1996. From 1996 to 2001, she was a regional advisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement consulting with special agents in complicated investigations including homicide, narcotics and organized crime. With the knowledge obtained through years of work as a lawyer, Hoffman turned to writing legal/crime thrillers.
John Roberts
John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States on the Supreme Court of the United States. He took his seat on September 29, 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of chief justice William Rehnquist. He has been described as having a conservative judicial philosophy in his jurisprudence. Roberts grew up in northwest Indiana and was educated in a private school. He then attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a managing editor of the "Harvard Law Review". After being admitted to the bar, he served as a law clerk for Henry Friendly and then Rehnquist before taking a position in the attorney general's office during the Reagan Administration.