John Grisham
American writer and lawyer
Having a stroke.
What is your greatest fear?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
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Losing my family in some way.
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Making my mum proud.
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