John Grisham has won the inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for his novel The Confession. The award, which is co-sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the American Bar Association's ABA Journal, honors a "published work of fiction that best exemplifies the positive role of lawyers in society and their power to effect change." Grisham will receive the award during a ceremony September 22 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.