ABA Journal

The Modern Law Library

 

 

 

Posted July 5, 2017

By: Lee Rawles

  

In this special mega-episode of the Modern Law Library, the ABA Journal's Lee Rawles speaks with all three finalists for this year's Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction about their novels, careers—and the first time they remember reading To Kill a Mockingbird.

Jodi Picoult, author of Small Great Things, shares how research for this novel changed her views on race and racism.

 

Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, discusses how he approaches writing historical fiction about real people like Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla.

 

And James Grippando, author of Gone Again, talks about how he’s been able to balance his work as a mystery writer with actively practicing law.

 

In This Podcast:

 

James Grippando

 

James Grippando is a New York Times best-selling author of 25 novels. He is also of counsel with Boies Schiller & Flexner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he lives with his wife and two children. After law school, he clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

 

Graham Moore

 

Graham Moore is a New York Times best-selling novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. The Last Days of Night is his second novel. His screenplay for The Imitation Game won the Academy Award and WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2015 and was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. He lives in Los Angeles.

 

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