we can celebrate writers like john grisham and harper lee, were doing something wrong. john has agreed to be uppity can participate if you want stuart can just listen. if we get things wrong, let us know i'm sure. i have a serious question here. i think we should have a free flow of dialogue. i will call in any one person to panel to answer. feel free to jump in. i like this question and i am going to start with it. i was the lawyer portrayed in popular fiction changed in the 50 years since atticus finch? atticus finch as the lawyer rheostat on time ugly sometime in our lives and been accused of a really bad crying because he's the guy that will be there for us and he stands for what it appeared and seems to be ideal but it's hard to understand. so the question how was it changed since atticus finch? [inaudible] >> please go peered >> well, for one thing, atticus finch is a flawless carrot here. for many people who read "to kill a mockingbird," that is some of the complexity the book you have a character who is too good at the end is going to have his own son prosecuted

harper lee and john grisham. they can be assured that as long as we have libraries, their work will continue to be honored. thank you very much. [applause] >> ilooking around this room we could recognize him a special guest today. i know it members of the federal judiciary. you ought us with your presence but if you want to single out i'm sure mr. grisham will do it later on, we have many representatives from random house. signee, gene and gene and the rest of john's publishing team and we want to recognize you with a round of applause as well. [applause] >> and we had outstanding committee that selected this book. we had so many books nominated. we a group in tuscaloosa and elsewhere that narrowed the field down to three books and we had an outstanding selection committee. i'm going to go in alphabetical order. david baldacci who is a best selling author, his first novel was published in 1996 was an immediate bestseller. he has since published more than 20 novels and seven original screenplays with his wife, mic

the john grisham characters when you think about one of my favorite books, "the rainmaker." you know, these are people who are tireless, energy energetic crusaders. morris dees, the real life people who just do the right thing. they just do the right 24eu7bg. and we don't teach law students to do that, so it's beyond faith. it's about asking them to go beyond what the law is and to just fight for the right things, the most righteous crusading cause. and that's, you know, why people -- that's why these characters stand out, that's why real-life heros like morris dees stand out, because they're not doing what everyone else is doing. they're going beyond what everyone else is doing. >> and i do think there is, you know, it's interesting that atticus is a man of faith, a man who goes to church, you know? in the confession, i think we have the few characters who don't go to church are the lawyers. [laughter] and i do think it goes to, so now i'm positing drunk, atheist lawyers. what a nightmare. i went to law school not that long ago, and religion is something you don't talk abou

john grisham. although i'm just repeating facts all of you know that the market as a person, the shorter the introduction. someone who is originally from arkansas graduated from the university of mississippi law school in 1981 to practice law for nearly a decade, specializing in criminal defense in personal injury litigation. he also served in the mississippi house of representatives from 1883 until 1990. as difficult as all of us lawyers go is to practice law, he somehow wrote every morning before the crack of don and published a time to kill in 1880. his next book, the firm, spent 47 weeks on "the new york times" bestsellers list it was a best-selling novel of 1991. two more of this book immediately claimed the number one spot on the list. the pelican brief and the client. mr. grisham has written about one legal fiction book a year. nine have been turned into movies and is also written about other diverse subjects such as baseball and aging football quarterback and christmas. mr. grisham's nonfic

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but, you know, it is kind of like what john grisham says in a way. once you sell it, you know, it is theirs. your book, it's their movie. it's hard to say that, but at the same time i've been very lucky. i thought "21 "was a great, fun movie, and i love "the social network," so so far it's been great, you know? you never know what's going to happen. >> would you ever just write a screenplay? >> i've done a couple screenplays. i did a draft of one of my early books, "ugly americans," which hasn't gotten made, sadly. the books for me are my main bread and butter, but for me it's they have to want me to. i spent a long time as a struggling writer, and i don't want to go through that again. >> right. >> and, you know, the truth is they don't necessarily want you to adapt your own work for whatever reason. it's not normally the first thing they go to. >> right, right. >> so, you know, we'll see. >> who should play thad? >> i get asked that a lot. and that, again, is going to be up to the director and the producers. but it's got to be a good looking guy wh

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where can i get the latest john grisham novel. it brought up websites for it.t may be helpful any way. >> if it answerthe meaning of life that's a really good phone. stock closed at a record high today and the company expects to sell three million of them this weekend. >>> 234 the middle of the excitement heavy hearts as its release date is just a week after steve jobs died but his legacy is not just about the things we use every day but how we use them and what the economy that's popped them up. brian now with the real impact of the life of steve jobs. >> hello. >> hi. >> reporter: today the i-phone 4s was released with the pain fair of any apple launch, but maybe with a quiet touch. many across the world are still mourning the loss of steve jobs and the increased realizing of his legacy's staying power. >> there will be certain people that we celebrate as a society. we have changed the way we live and the way we think and -- he will still be top of mind for most americans. >> reporter: chris harris is a marketing professor at the johns hopkins carry by school

neither did john grisham. earl stanley gardner was writing courtroom drama in the 1930's and 1940's. "anatty of a murder" came out in 1958. first we have "to kill a mockingbird," which most lawyers and most lawyer authors will tell you is kind of the seminal work of why we got interested. and i started writing a novel as i was approaching my 40th birthday. i wrote most of it on a ferry going to and from work every day. it took me three years. and that book became "special circumstances," story of a murder in a big law firm. it came out in 2000 and spent seven weeks on "the new york times"' bestsellers' list. so for those of you who have bought my books, i thank you, because now i don't have to practice law full-time anymore. >> but all kidding aside, you know, i think crime novelists and readers of crime novels whether it's lawyer books or whether it's private detectives or cops, you know, in my world i'm like -- unlike tony's, i can control the outcome. i can get justice in my books because i can fix the endi

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twitter.com/booktv. >> next in knoxville, authors fred brown and jeanne mcdonald talk about their book john grisham 18. >> the title of your book is "growing up southern: how the south shapes its writers" and my first question is how does the south shape its writers? >> we ask that question to the 13 writers that we interviewed and what makes a southern writer? what is a southern writer? it is different from the a writer out west or in the east or something like that. they classified themselves as writers, they view themselves as southern writers because they live in the south but they are americans never the less. the very americans, very southern. place is a big thing to southern writers. place, home, the west may be larger and larger themes. the south seems to be a little more compact. at least these riders we interviewed all were born before world war ii. that was their definition. i am a southern writer but an american too. i write about social themes that all americans can appreciate and enjoy. when we interviewed the great southern writer from memphis we asked the same question about being a

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