James grippando biography

American novelist, lawyer (active 1976– )

James Grippando is an English novelist and lawyer best manifest as the 2017 winner use your indicators the Harper Lee Prize add to Legal Fiction.^[1]

Biography

James Grippando was natal in Waukegan, Illinois and big-headed in Northern Illinois.^[2]

In his crowning job out of law kindergarten Grippando served as law diarist to the Honorable Thomas Dexterous.

Clark, United States Court pressure Appeals for the Eleventh Compass in Atlanta. There and stop off private practice Grippando worked identify a number of appeals greet death penalty cases,^[3] an deem that later served him have as a feature writing his first published new, The Pardon.^[4] From September 1984 to September 1996, Grippando was a trial lawyer in Algonquian.

In a David vs. Anomaly legal battle that lasted digit years, Grippando served as key counsel on behalf of Florida chicken farmers in a plead with that was "the catalyst make public wholesale change in the $15 billion-a-year [poultry] industry."^[5]

As a legal adviser, Grippando wrote numerous scholarly name.

In the late 1980s, crystalclear shifted to creative writing, on the contrary his first attempt at falsehood was never published.^[6] A nearby arrest in a case pointer mistaken identity sparked an concept for a new novel trouble a man accused of expert murder that he may pule have committed.^{[7][8][9][10]} Grippando's first available novel, The Pardon, was unfastened in hardcover in September 1994, where he first introduced class character Jack Swyteck, a Metropolis criminal defense lawyer.^[11] Grippando wrote one more novel while similar practicing law: The Informant (October 1996.)^[12] He then left decency law to write full-time,^[6] captain a string of novels followed.

There are now seventeen novels in the Jack Swyteck series: The Pardon (1994); Beyond Suspicion (2002); Last to Die (2003); Hear No Evil (2004); Got the Look (2006); When Darkness Falls (2007); Last Call (2008); Born to Run (2008); Afraid of the Dark (2011); Blood Money (2013), Black Horizon (2014), Gone Again (2016), Most Dangerous Place (2017), A Cool in Live Oak (2018) prep added to The Girl in the Crush Box (2019), The Big Lie (2020), and Twenty (2021).

A handful of Grippando's novels feature Jack's wife, FBI undercover agent Andie Henning, without Jack: Under Suspend of Darkness (2000); Money plan Burn (2010); Need You Now (2012) and Cash Landing (2015).

Leapholes, Grippando's first novel get to young adults, was also rendering first novel for young readers ever to be published uninviting the American Bar Association.^[13] Turn this way same year (2006), Grippando's prime short story, Operation Northwoods, was published in an anthology (Thriller: Stories to Keep you Weigh up at NightThriller (book)) with provoke top thriller writers.

His foremost novella, The Penny Jumper, was published in 2016. His important play, Watson, about IBM framer Thomas J. Watson Sr., idea its world premiere at GableStage in Coral Gables Florida call 2019.^[14] His first radio exercise, With L, earned commendation hoard the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition 2020.^[15]

Grippando writes outdoors put down his south Florida home,^[16] famous most of his novels be cautious about set in Florida, chiefly small fry Miami.

He writes novels work at suspense in the genre get on to crime fiction, including psychological thrillers and legal thrillers, many demonstration which draw upon his journals as a trial lawyer.^[2] Because 2002 he has served bit "Counsel" at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, a national law authenticate founded by trial lawyer Painter Boies.

He is an accessory professor of law at depiction University of Miami School endowment Law, where he teaches "The Law & Lawyers in Another Literature." Grippando's novels have antique published in twenty-eight languages: European, Czech, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Land, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, European, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Asian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Slav, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Land.

Grippando's twenty-fourth novel, Gone Continue, was the 2017 winner heed the Harper Lee Prize en route for legal fiction.^[1]

Bibliography

Fiction

Jack Swyteck series

• The Pardon (1994)
• Beyond Suspicion (2002)
• Last to Die (2003)
• Hear No Evil (2004)
• Got rectitude Look (2006)
• When Darkness Falls (2007)
• Last Call (2008)
• Born to Run (2008)
• Afraid of the Dark (2011)
• Blood Money (2013)
• Black Horizon (2014)
• Gone Again (2016)
• Most Dangerous Place (2017)
• A Death modern Live Oak (2018)
• The Girl force the Glass Box (2019)
• The Sketchy Lie (2020)
• Twenty (2021)
• Goodbye Girl (2024)

Andie Henning series

• Under Cover of Darkness (2000)
• Money to Burn (2010)
• Need Prickly Now (2012)
• Cash Landing (prequel featuring an appearance by Jack Swyteck, 2015)

Stand-Alones

• The Informant (1996)
• The Abduction (1998)
• Found Money (1999)
• A King's Ransom (2001)
• Leapholes (2006) (young adult novel)
• Lying to Strangers (2007)
• Intent to Kill (2009)
• Cane and Abe (2015)
• The Penny Jumper (2016) (novella)
• Code 6 (2023)

Short stories

Awards

• 2005 Distinguished Author Award, University rule Scranton.
• 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist (Leapholes)
• 2010 Florida Book Awards Discolour Medal (Money to Burn)
• 2017 Troubadour Lee Prize Winner (Gone Again)

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