![]() ![]() ![]() For most of the 1990s Grisham Day, when his new book went on sale, was a fixed point of the publishing year – to be avoided by other publishers and celebrated by bookshops. Grisham regularly features on literary rich lists with an estimated fortune of $600m and an annual income in the tens of millions. They have been directed by Sydney Pollack, Francis Ford Coppola, Joel Schumacher and Alan J Pakula. Nine of his novels have been turned into films starring A-list actors such as Julia Roberts, Gene Hackman, Sandra Bullock, Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman. His subsequent series of legal thrillers has gone on to sell close to 300m copies and been translated into 40 languages. ![]() And, for Grisham at least, the "abnormality" of The Firm's commercial success soon became the norm. ![]()
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