Question: Who write the novel on which The Chamber was based? 

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The Chamber (novel): The Chamber (1994) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham.  It is Grisham's fifth novel.

Halo: Contact Harvest: Halo: Contact Harvest is a military science fiction novel by Joseph Staten, based on the "Halo" series of video games.  The book was released in October 2007 and is the fifth "Halo" novel, following 2006's "", written by Eric Nylund.  Staten is a longtime employee of Bungie, the developer of the "Halo" video game series; he directed the cut scenes in the video games and is a major contributor to "Halo"' s storyline.  He set out to write a novel that appealed to gamers, as well as those who had never read a "Halo" novel.

Cendrillon (Viardot): Cendrillon is a chamber operetta with dialogue in three acts by Pauline Viardot based on the story of "Cinderella".  The work, for a cast of seven with piano orchestration, premiered in Viardot's Paris salon on 23 April 1904, when she was 83, and was published later that year.  Historians are unsure of when the opera was actually composed, although it is thought to be after the death of Viardot's friend (and possibly her lover) Ivan Turgenev in 1883 as he did not write the libretto.  It has been described as "a retelling of the Cinderella story with Gallic wit, Italianate bel canto, and a quirkiness all her [Viardot's] own."

The Chamber (film): The Chamber is a 1996 crime thriller film based on John Grisham's novel of the same name.  The film was directed by James Foley and stars Gene Hackman and Chris O'Donnell.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film): Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 British-American fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros.  Pictures.  It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling.  The film is the second instalment in the long-running "Harry Potter" film series.  It was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman.  Its story follows Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as the Heir of Salazar Slytherin opens the Chamber of Secrets, unleashing a monster that petrifies the school's denizens.  The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.  The film is also the last film to feature Richard Harris as Professor Albus Dumbledore, due to his death that same year.

The Wanderers (Rimland novel): The Wanderers is a novel by Ingrid Rimland published in 1977 loosely based upon her own experiences from growing up in a Mennonite community in the Ukraine.  Rimland wanted to write a novel about her people, and "The Wanderers" tells the story of the plight of Mennonite women caught in the social upheavals of revolution and war.  The novel traces the decimation of a pacifist people during the Russian Revolution, anarchy, famine, the Stalinist purges, escape from the Ukraine, and eventual resettlement in the rain forests of Paraguay.

Red Tea: Red Tea is an English novel written by Paul Harris Daniel (born 1910).  It was published in Madras by Higginbothams in 1969.  The 2013 Tamil film Paradesi was based on it.  It is based on the experiences of tea plantation workers in the Madras Presidency during the British Raj.  It was translated into Tamil as "Eriyum Panikaadu" by Ira.  Murugavel.  Daniel was a medical doctor and had worked in a series of Assamese tea plantations as chief medical officer during 1941-65.  He also acted as a union organiser.  During that time, he had interviewed many workers there and obtained signed statements from them.  Later he used that material to write this novel.  Though a work of fiction detailing the lives of Karuppan and Valli, "Red Tea" was written with an "explicit documentary purpose".  It details how the Madras Planters Act of 1903 led to the poor conditions of plantation workers.  Debt bondage of the workers, their poor working conditions, their inability to escape their life are all captured in this novel.The Tamil film 'Paradesi' is based on this work.

Kingdom of the Blind: Kingdom of the Blind is an original novel written by David Bishop and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip "Judge Dredd".  It is Bishop's fifth "Judge Dredd" novel.  He later blogged: "I swore I'd never, ever, ever write another Judge Dredd novel."

Maude Meagher: Maude Meagher (8 April 1895 – 1977) was a novelist, author of "Fantastic Traveller", the tale of a young man living in a world of his dreams.  She was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Rev. H.A. Meagher and Anne Maude Tomlinson.  She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1917, where she met her lifelong friend Catherine Urner, and became a reporter for the "San Francisco Chronicle" in 1918.  In 1919-1920, she worked as a foreign correspondent and an actress in England and Germany, and then traveled with her friend Catherine through France, Algeria and Italy.  In 1925, she wrote the adventure novel "Copper Mountain: Adventurous Days Among the Eskimos" partly based on the books of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.  In 1930 she published her novel, "White Jade", a historical novel about Yang Kuei-fei telling how Po Chu'i (Bo Juyi) came to write his famous poem "Everlasting Sorrow" about Yang.  In 1934, she wrote "The Green Scamander," a novel about the Trojan War from the viewpoint of the Amazons.  With her friend Carolyn Smiley, Meagher started publishing World Youth magazine.  They ran the magazine out of an adobe house called "Casa Tierra" which they built and lived in.  When it was completed in 1947, it was reportedly the largest secular adobe in North America.  They wrote of their experience in a book entitled "How We Built An Adobe House For World Youth".  Because of the acoustics, which he considered ideal, their friend famed violinist Yehudi Menuhin loved to play the violin in the great room.

The Tarnished Eye: The Tarnished Eye is a 2004 crime novel by Judith Guest, based on the Robison family murders that occurred in June 1968 in Good Hart, Michigan and the murders committed by John Norman Collins in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti areas of Michigan in the late 1960s.  In an interview with Metro Times,Guest explained why she chose to write a fictionalized account of these two murder cases: "I’m very interested in people’s motivations, why they do the things they do, why go to such extremes as if that’s the only solution to their problem.  Those two crimes laid awake in my mind for a long time, and, about five years ago, I decided to write about them, but write a novel."

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Answer: John Grisham