person:john grisham

Writers unite in campaign against ’thuggish’ Amazon
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/25/writers-campaign-amazon-ebook-dispute-us-hachette

They include some of the biggest literary names on the planet, among them Stephen King, Donna Tartt, Paul Auster, James Patterson and John Grisham; a Pulitzer prize winner in Jennifer Egan; and four from this year’s Man Booker longlist, Joshua Ferris, Karen Joy Fowler, Siri Hustvedt and Joseph O’Neill. Then there are first-time writers, historians, biographers – all of them part of an unprecedented campaign against the world’s biggest books retailer, Amazon.

The writers have lent their name to a letter objecting to Amazon’s tactics as it negotiates over ebooks with Hachette, the fourth largest publisher in the US.

After Guantánamo, Another Injustice - John Grisham
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/after-guantanamo-another-injustice.html

I became curious and tracked down a detainee who enjoys my books. His name is Nabil Hadjarab, and he is a 34-year-old Algerian who grew up in France. He learned to speak French before he learned to speak Arabic. He has close family and friends in France, but not in Algeria. As a kid growing up near Lyon, he was a gifted soccer player and dreamed of playing for Paris St.-Germain, or another top French club.

Tragically for Nabil, he has spent the past 11 years as a prisoner at Guantánamo, much of the time in solitary confinement. Starting in February, he participated in a hunger strike, which led to his being force-fed.