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James Michael Grippando

Born January 27, 1958 (1958-01-27) (age 50)
Waukegan,
Illinois,
American
Occupation Novelist
Nationality USA
Writing period 1994-present
Genres Crime fiction
Legal thriller
Young adult
Influences
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James Grippando (born January 27, 1958) is an American novelist and lawyer. Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Waukegan ( IPA: /wɔˈkigən/ is a city in Lake County, Illinois. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Crime fiction is the Genre of Fiction that deals with Crimes their detection criminals and their motives It is usually distinguished from The legal thriller is a sub-genre of Crime fiction in which the major characters are Lawyers and their employees Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. Albert Camus ( (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 was an Algerian born French Author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

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Biography

Born in Waukegan, Illinois and raised in the rural area of Antioch, Illinois (north of Chicago),[1] James Michael Grippando is the son of James Vincent (of Italian and Irish heritage) and Gloria Marie (of German and Czech heritage) Grippando. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. Antioch is a village in the Antioch Township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, His father was a printer, and his mother, one of the first nurses in America to earn a doctorate degree, taught college level nursing and authored a nursing textbook. Raised as a Roman Catholic[2] in a family of five children (three sisters, one brother), Grippando graduated from Antioch Community High School in 1976, attended the University of Illinois for one year, and then transferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he earned his B. Antioch Community High School, Antioch, or ACHS, is a public four-year High school located in Antioch Illinois, a far north suburb of Chicago This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research A. in 1980 and his J. D. in 1982.

From August 1983 to August 1984, Grippando served as law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Clark, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta. The United States courts of appeals (or circuit courts) are the intermediate appellate courts There and in private practice Grippando worked on a number of appeals in death penalty cases,[3] an experience that later served him in writing his first novel, The Pardon. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. [4] From September 1984 through September 1996, Grippando was a trial lawyer in Miami. In a David vs. Goliath legal battle that lasted seven years, Grippando served as lead counsel on behalf of Florida chicken farmers in a case that was "the catalyst for wholesale change in the $15 billion-a-year [poultry] industry. "[5]

As a lawyer, Grippando wrote numerous scholarly articles. In the late 1980s, he shifted to creative writing, but his first attempt at fiction was never published. Creative writing is considered to be any writing Fiction or Non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, Journalistic, [6] A near arrest in a case of mistaken identity sparked an idea for a new novel about a man accused of a murder that he may not have committed. [7][8][9][10] Grippando's first published novel, The Pardon, was released in hardcover in September 1994, where he first introduced the character Jack Swyteck, a Miami criminal defense lawyer. [11] Grippando wrote one more novel while still practicing law: The Informant was published in October 1996. [12] He then left the law to write full time,[13] and a string of novels followed: The Abduction (1998); Found Money (1999); Under Cover of Darkness (2000); A King's Ransom (2001); Beyond Suspicion (2002); Last to Die (2003); Hear No Evil (2004); Got the Look (2006); Leapholes (for young adults) (2006); When Darkness Falls (2007); Lying with Strangers (2007) and Last Call (2008). Beyond Suspicion marked the return of character Jack Swyteck, and since then, all but Leapholes and Lying with Strangers have been in the Jack Swyteck series.

Leapholes, Grippando's first novel for young adults, was also the first novel for young readers ever to be published by the American Bar Association. The American Bar Association ( ABA) founded August 21 1878 is a voluntary Bar association of Lawyers and law students which is not specific [14] That same year (2006), Grippando's first short story, Operation Northwoods, was published in an anthology (Thriller: Stories to Keep you Up at Night Thriller (book)) with other top thriller writers. Thriller is a collection of 30 thriller short stories from multiple authors in one book

Grippando writes outdoors at his south Florida home,[15] and most of his novels are set in Florida, chiefly in Miami. He writes novels of suspense in the genre of crime fiction, including psychological thrillers and legal thrillers, many of which draw upon his experiences as a trial lawyer. Crime fiction is the Genre of Fiction that deals with Crimes their detection criminals and their motives It is usually distinguished from Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the wide-ranging thriller genre The legal thriller is a sub-genre of Crime fiction in which the major characters are Lawyers and their employees [16] Grippando's novels have have been published in twenty-six languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

In 1994, Grippando married Tiffany Suzanne Russell. [17] They have three children.

Bibliography

Fiction

Short stories

Non-fiction

Nonfiction (Scholarly)

Nonfiction (Magazines and Newspapers)

Grippando in Popular Culture

Awards

Other Florida-based crime fiction writers

References

  1. ^ D. Stuart M Kaminsky (born 1934 is an award-winning American mystery writer John Katzenbach (aka Jon born in 1950 is an author of Popular fiction. Elmore John Leonard Jr (born October 11, 1925) is a popular and acclaimed American Novelist and Screenwriter. John Dann MacDonald ( July 24, 1916 &ndash December 28, 1986) was an American Author. The Lost Experience was an Alternate reality game that was part of the American television drama ''Lost''. Elaine Viets is a Midwestern American newspaperwoman and mystery Writer. Randy Wayne White (born 1950) is an American writer of Crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales Charles Ray Willeford III ( January 2, 1919 – March 27 1988) was an American Writer. Hiltbrand, Don't Give Crime Author any Ideas, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2006.
  2. ^ D. Hiltbrand, Don't Give Crime Author any Ideas, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2006.
  3. ^ B. Goldsmith, Everyone's a critic, says author Grippando, Reuters News Service, February 21, 2007.
  4. ^ D. O'Briant, A Better Verdict the Second Time, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Section F-4, October 6, 1994.
  5. ^ B Ortega, Pecking Order Being Challenged in Chicken Industry, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 12, 1992.
  6. ^ A. Suarez, Two Dreamers Have it All, The Miami Herald, Section E-1, July 25, 2000.
  7. ^ J. Fleischman, Lawyer Writes Thriller after Brief Police Encounter, The Miami Herald, Section B-2, August 12, 1994.
  8. ^ C. Mabe, Innocent Beginning, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Section E-1, October 18, 1994.
  9. ^ M. Carlin, Personal Experience Turns into Novel for this Lawyer, Rocky Mountain News, 67A, October 16, 1994.
  10. ^ Miami Attorney's Legal Thriller Really Takes Off, The Florida Bar News, November 1, 1994
  11. ^ J. D. Reed, Picks & Pans--Pages: The Pardon, People Magazine, p. 40, September 19, 1994.
  12. ^ C. Mabe, Miami author has made a case for himself with book for teens, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, May 14, 2007.
  13. ^ A. Suarez, Two Dreamers Have it All, The Miami Herald, Section E-1, July 25, 2000.
  14. ^ A. Couture, Book Review, Foreword Magazine at 61 (January/February 2007).
  15. ^ C. Mabe, Miami author has made a case for himself with book for teens, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Section E-1, May 14, 2007.
  16. ^ D. Hiltbrand, Don't Give Crime Author any Ideas, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2006.
  17. ^ A. Suarez, Two Dreamers Have it All, The Miami Herald, Section E-1, July 25, 2000.
  18. ^ The New York Times, Section B-8, June 14, 2005.

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Persondata
NAME Grippando, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Novelist, Lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Waukegan, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Events 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Waukegan ( IPA: /wɔˈkigən/ is a city in Lake County, Illinois. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the
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