A Painted House is not only an entertaining story of the hardships of a typical rural Arkansas tenant-farmer family struggling to keep afloat. It's also a tale of a young boy, Luke Chandler, and his journey from innocence to experience. During the course of Luke's adventures, John Grisham also sha...

In John Grisham's novel thriller, The Pelican Brief, Grisham combines both page turning action and popcorn reading to develop his overall theme in the book, which is tracking down the person who wants the author of the Pelican Brief dead. Thanks to his use of plot and various symbols, Grisham r...

What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

POOR BOY TO CELEBRITY John Grisham has risen from a poor boy to a very a famous and successful author with best-selling novels. He has had eleven excellent books published and will soon have his twelfth novel published. Grisham has used his education in law to write innovative novels about court...

It was The Firm that earned him fame and recognition and the book was aninstant bestseller (John Grisham, np). The story and the plot were sointriguing that the Paramount Pictures bought the book rights to be turnedinto a movie and we saw Tom Cruise in the most powerful and dynamic role.However, the...

BEHIND EVERY BIG FORTUNE THERE I$ A CRIMEBOOK REPORT: JOHN GRISHAM The Firm(Just check on how FIRM you are)Author InformationJohn Grisham, who has triumphantly won the title of an internationally acknowledged best-selling novelist, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Moving to ...