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The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. [1] [2] It was Grisham's seventh novel. The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 (ISBN 0-385-47294-3). Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 (ISBN 0-582-43405-X).
Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham. [6] His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker. [10] When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, Tennessee. [6]
Although A Time to Kill was published 15 years before The Last Juror, it took place in 1985 (on the first page of Chapter 3, it notes the date as Wednesday, May 15), which is a year after Grisham formed the idea for A Time to Kill, his first novel, and began writing it.
Runaway Jury is a 2003 American legal thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz.An adaptation of John Grisham's 1996 novel The Runaway Jury, [2] the film pits lawyer Wendell Rohr (Hoffman) against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Hackman), who uses unlawful means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense.
Bestselling novelist John Grisham returns with a work of non-fiction, co-written by Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion, an organization that advocates for the wrongfully-convicted.
Lawyer and author Polly Nelson sued Grisham in 1995, alleging The Chamber had striking similarities to Defending the Devil, her nonfiction book about her experiences as lawyer for serial killer Ted Bundy. [1] [2] After Grisham prevailed in a lower court ruling in 1996, the case was dismissed on appeal in 1997. [3]
The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. [1] It is his third novel after A Time to Kill and The Firm. Two paperback editions were published, both by Dell Publishing in 1993. A namesake film adaptation was released in 1993 starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
Judge releases jury questionnaire for Trump's hush money trial