WRITER

John Grisham

1955 - Today

John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (; born February 8, 1955) is an American novelist, lawyer, and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Grisham has received more than 6,811,762 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). John Grisham is the 1,127th most popular writer (down from 899th in 2019), the 1,324th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,057th in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Writer.

John Grisham is most famous for his novels, which are usually legal thrillers.

Memorability Metrics

6.8M
Page Views (PV)
60.83
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
63
Languages Editions (L)
4.92
Effective Languages (L*)
4.98
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Pelican Brief

Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Legal

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. From the Paperback edition.

19923 / 5

The Partner

Fiction

JOHN GRISHAM'S FIRST ORIGINAL E-SHORT In this standalone prequel to his #1 bestseller ROGUE LAWYER, John Grisham tells the story of how Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and partner. Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers won't go near. It's controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian needs his bodyguard/assistant/sidekick: Partner. So if Sebastian is just about the most unpopular lawyer in town, why is Partner so loyal to him? How did they meet? And what's the real story of this man of few words who's as good with a gun as he is with the law? The surprising answers are all in PARTNERS, John Grisham's first exclusively digital short story.

19974 / 5

The Client

Fiction / Legal

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnessed the suicide of a New Orleans attorney. Before he died he told Mark a deadly secret about the recent murder of a Louisiana senator whose accused killer, a Mafia thug, is about to go to trial. Mark hires a lawyer, Reggie Love, who loves helping kids overlooked or abused by the system.

1993

A Time to Kill

Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers / General, Fiction / Legal

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...

19894 / 5