{"id":15281,"date":"2025-09-11T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15281\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:08:09","slug":"john-grisham-to-author-non-fiction-book-on-robert-roberson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15281\/","title":{"rendered":"John Grisham to author non-fiction book on Robert Roberson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (KLTV) &#8211; Doubleday has announced it will publish John Grisham\u2019s new non-fiction book on an East Texas man on death row in connection with the death of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSHAKEN: The Rush to Execute an Innocent Man\u201d will chronicle the story of Robert Roberson and will be released on June 9, 2026 by Doubleday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe wrongful conviction of Robert Roberson has been an ongoing tragedy for over twenty years,\u201d Grisham said in a press release. \u201cIf it now becomes a wrongful execution, it will live in infamy. We don\u2019t know its final chapter, but I\u2019ll be there to record the outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Grisham is the author of 51 consecutive No. 1 bestsellers. He serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Roberson was convicted in 2003 of killing his chronically ill 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, by allegedly violently shaking her before taking her to a hospital. Examiners now say she died of pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (KLTV) &#8211; Doubleday has announced it will publish John Grisham\u2019s new non-fiction book on an East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,17540,156,17538,111,139,69,17539],"class_list":{"0":"post-15281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-doubleday","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-john-grisham","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-robert-roberson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}