# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-grisham
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:39:10.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-grisham"
name: "John Grisham"
slug: "john-grisham"
description: "John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing."
tagline: "American writer (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Grisham_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.77
  momentum:             2.434083212385099
  historical:           26.960784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "johngrisham"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/johngrishamauthor/"
    handle:    "johngrishamauthor"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JohnGrisham"
    handle:    "JohnGrisham"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001300/"
    handle:    "nm0001300"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jgrisham.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Grisham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Grisham"
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    title: "Ջոն Գրիշեմ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump