John Jay Osborn Jr., Date of Birth

John Jay Osborn Jr.

American writer

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1945

Profession: writer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

John Jay Osborn Jr.
(born August 5, 1945) is an American author, lawyer and legal academic.
He is best known for his bestselling novel, The Paper Chase, a fictional account of one Harvard Law School student's battles with the imperious Professor Charles Kingsfield.
The book was made into a 1973 film starring John Houseman and Timothy Bottoms.
Houseman won an Oscar for his performance as contracts professor Kingsfield.
The Paper Chase also became a television series, and Osborn wrote several of the scripts. Osborn's third novel, The Associates, was adapted into a short-lived television series starring Martin Short and Wilfrid Hyde-White.He is one of the writers (along with Thomas A.
Cohen) of the screenplay for the 2010 film version of the 1983 novel The River Why by David James Duncan.
The movie, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Quinlan, was screened in 2010 at various film festivals.