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James Grippando (born 1958) is an American novelist and lawyer. ==Biography== James Grippando was born in Waukegan, Illinois and raised in rural Illinois.〔D. Hiltbrand, ''Don't Give Crime Author any Ideas,'' The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2006.〕 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,〔B. Goldsmith, ''Everyone's a critic, says author Grippando,'' Reuters News Service, February 21, 2007.〕 an experience that later served him in writing his first published novel, ''The Pardon''.〔D. O'Briant, ''A Better Verdict the Second Time,'' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Section F-4, October 6, 1994.〕 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 () industry."〔B Ortega, ''Pecking Order Being Challenged in Chicken Industry,'' The Wall Street Journal, August 12, 1992.〕 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.〔A. Suarez, ''Two Dreamers Have it All,'' The Miami Herald, Section E-1, July 25, 2000.〕 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.〔J. Fleischman, ''Lawyer Writes Thriller after Brief Police Encounter,'' The Miami Herald, Section B-2, August 12, 1994.〕〔C. Mabe, ''Innocent Beginning'', Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Section E-1, October 18, 1994.〕〔M. Carlin, ''Personal Experience Turns into Novel for this Lawyer,'' Rocky Mountain News, 67A, October 16, 1994.〕〔''Miami Attorney's Legal Thriller Really Takes Off'', The Florida Bar News, November 1, 1994〕 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.〔J.D. Reed, ''Picks & Pans--Pages: The Pardon,'' People Magazine, p. 40, September 19, 1994.〕 Grippando wrote one more novel while still practicing law:'' The Informant'' (October 1996.)〔C. Mabe, ''Miami author has made a case for himself with book for teens,'' Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, May 14, 2007.〕 He then left the law to write full-time,〔 and a string of novels followed. There are now eleven 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), and ''Black Horizon'' (2014). 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) and ''Need You Now'' (2012). ''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.〔A. Couture, Book Review, ''Foreword Magazine'' at 61 (January/February 2007).〕 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. Grippando writes outdoors at his south Florida home,〔C. Mabe, ''Miami author has made a case for himself with book for teens,'' Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Section E-1, May 14, 2007.〕 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.〔 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Grippando」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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