James Grippando

James Grippando
Born January 27, 1958
Waukegan, Illinois
United States
Occupation Novelist
Nationality United States
Period 1994-present
Genre Crime fiction
Legal thriller
Young adult
Website
www.jamesgrippando.com

James Grippando (born January 27, 1958) is an American novelist and lawyer.

Biography

James Grippando was born in Waukegan, Illinois and raised in rural Illinois.[1]

In his first job out of law school Grippando served as law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Clark, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta. There and in private practice Grippando worked on a number of appeals in death penalty cases,[2] an experience that later served him in writing his first published novel, The Pardon.[3] From September 1984 to 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."[4]

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.[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10] Grippando wrote one more novel while still practicing law: The Informant (October 1996.)[11] He then left the law to write full-time,[5] and a string of novels followed. There are now twelve 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) and Gone Again (2016). Several of Grippando's novels feature Jack's wife, FBI undercover agent Andie Henning, without Jack: Under Cover of Darkness (2000); Money to Burn (2010); Need You Now (2012) and Cash Landing (2015).

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.[12] 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. His first novella, The Penny Jumper, was published in 2016.

Grippando writes outdoors at his south Florida home,[13] 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.[1] Since 2004 he has served as "Counsel" in Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, a national law firm headed by trial lawyer David Boies. Grippando's novels have been published in twenty-eight languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Bibliography

Fiction

Short stories

Non-fiction

Nonfiction (Scholarly)

Nonfiction (Magazines and Newspapers)

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 D. Hiltbrand, Don't Give Crime Author any Ideas, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2006.
  2. ↑ B. Goldsmith, Everyone's a critic, says author Grippando, Reuters News Service, February 21, 2007.
  3. ↑ D. O'Briant, A Better Verdict the Second Time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Section F-4, October 6, 1994.
  4. ↑ B Ortega, Pecking Order Being Challenged in Chicken Industry, The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 1992.
  5. 1 2 A. Suarez, Two Dreamers Have it All, The Miami Herald, Section E-1, July 25, 2000.
  6. ↑ J. Fleischman, Lawyer Writes Thriller after Brief Police Encounter, The Miami Herald, Section B-2, August 12, 1994.
  7. ↑ C. Mabe, Innocent Beginning, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Section E-1, October 18, 1994.
  8. ↑ M. Carlin, Personal Experience Turns into Novel for this Lawyer, Rocky Mountain News, 67A, October 16, 1994.
  9. ↑ Miami Attorney's Legal Thriller Really Takes Off, The Florida Bar News, November 1, 1994
  10. ↑ J.D. Reed, Picks & Pans--Pages: The Pardon, People Magazine, p. 40, September 19, 1994.
  11. ↑ C. Mabe, Miami author has made a case for himself with book for teens, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, May 14, 2007.
  12. ↑ A. Couture, Book Review, Foreword Magazine at 61 (January/February 2007).
  13. ↑ C. Mabe, Miami author has made a case for himself with book for teens, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Section E-1, May 14, 2007.

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