European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Book Grisham s Brief Sharp Rise astride his hot novel by Sarah Booth Conroy the Washington Post run and hide suspense novelist John Grisham looked a bit like one of his characters on the Lam. A Little red line ran around the edges of his eyes. A Fine stubble of fuzz on his face gave the impression of a Iran aggressively unshaven. Grisham was on tour for his new Book the Pelican Brief. In it the pursued is a Brilliant new Orleans Law student with Long legs red hair and toenails to match. After two supreme court justices Are murdered she runs a computer search to determine Why they were killed. Her professor Lover Dies in a car bombing after he sends her Brief on the subject to a Friend at the Fri. The student goes undercover and on the Road. In Grisham a previous Book the firm out in paperback a Young lawyer just out of school discovers his Memphis Law firm is a front for the mob. A a simple Story has a lot of Appeal to movie people a said the novelist with the modest air of a 37-year-old Man with better than a million and a half dollars for movie rights. A nothing fancy about my style. I like movies where you re hooked in. With everybody shooting everybody. Real stories of everyday people. A a in a fascinated by average Ordinary people a with no training in espionage a forced to hit the Road when somebody a trying to get  those a average Ordinary people a on the evidence of his books Are lawyers would be or once were lawyers. Grisham is a once were a for a decade or so a initially specializing in criminal defense and then in More lucrative civil suits. Grisham Calls his oeuvre a commercial  his books suit readers brought up on television fare where a new crisis always precedes the next commercial. In the written version each chapter ends at a jumping off place to make the Reader turn to the next. Its escape fiction the characters escape their Fate and readers escape their troubles. Grisham in his pleasant Mississippi accent has the courtly and conciliatory manner common to Southern men and successful lawyers. Home is Oxford miss., a University town accustomed to famous novelists William Faulkner just Down the Road a piece from South Haven the Memphis suburb where he and his wife Renee met. He settled Down to a profitable Law practice first in criminal then civil Law in their Home town. In due course they had two children to 8, and Shea 6. Fit John Grisham author of the Pelican Brief. Like a lot of lawyers Grisham did no to find his practice All engrossing. In 1984, he decided to be a politician a and was elected to the first of two terms in the Mississippi House of representatives. And he started his first novel. A time to kill began in his mind when Grisham happened to be in the courthouse during the trial of a Man accused of raping a 10-year-old. The plot of the firm was suggested to Grisham by his experiences in Law school. He sold the movie rights before two publishers bid for the Book. It went to Doubleday for an Advance of $200,000. In his new House Grisham began the Pelican Brief. He thought about justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall the last of the liberals on the supreme court. And he thought of the likelihood of an incumbent president wanting to replace them. Once again the Book was sold to the movies this time to producer Alan Pakula before it was published. Plots for More books a sparked by a $6 million Doubleday contract for his next three a Are coming thick and fast. Said Grisham a i get a lot of Good ideas just watching  experiences grow through volume by Charles Solomon los Angeles times growing up Block edited by Jay David Avon. The excerpts from 25 african american autobiographies in this volume cover two centuries of Black experience beginning with Isaac Jefferson a account of life at Monticello with Thomas Jefferson a a slave owner who opposed slavery in principle. While Many of the authors document the arbitrary and often murderous violence that Blacks faced during the Century after the civil War the common thread that runs through these disparate memoirs is the bitter discovery of How restricted opportunities were for african americans in the self proclaimed land of Freedom. Maya Angelou recalls the anger and resentment she Felt when a White graduation speaker assumed that Black children might aspire to be athletes but nothing More. Elizabeth Eckford describes her encounter with a furious mob in 1957, when she tried to enter officially desegregated Little Rock High school. In a powerful excerpt from dispatches from a dying generation Nathan Mccall observes the pernicious effects of those limits on Young african americans today. Reflecting on his own troubled youth a which included a prison sentence for armed robbery a Mccall warns a i see a younger meaner generation out there now a More lost and alienated than we were and placing even less value on life. We were at least touched by role models this new Bunch is totally estranged from the Black  s i is i i i a sew York times list fiction 1 tit Pecan Brief by John Grisham last week 1 weeks on list 9 2 All around tin town by Mary Higgins Clark last week 2. Weeks on isl 9 3 Quot i Quot it Tor innocent by sue Grafton last week 3. Weeks on list 3 4 Jan by Toni Morrison last week 4 weeks on list 4 5 rising Sun by Michael Crichton last week 5 weeks on list 13 a or lava Alum by Ivana Trump Iasi week 6 weeks on list 3 7 franch Ink by Sandra Brown last week 15 weeks on list 2 i of amp tacos Yow Roll by or. 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