Title: The Green Mile
First published: March 27, 1998
Description: The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work. The book is an example of magical realism.

The Green Mile won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, The Green Mile was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".


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Contains:

 1. [The Two Dead Girls](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149165W/The_Two_Dead_Girls)
 2. [The Mouse on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149147W/The_Mouse_on_the_Mile)
 3. [Coffey's Hands](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149107W/Coffey's_Hands)
 4. [The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15861106W/The_Bad_Death_of_Eduard_Delacroix)
 5. [Night Journey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16252000W/Night_Journey)
 6. [Coffey on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15136222W/Coffey_on_the_Mile)
Subjects: horror fiction, fiction, death row inmates, prisons, Executions and executioners, jails, sisters, murder, horror, prison officials and employees, American Horror tales, mice, Serialized fiction, mystery, Murderers, Horror tales, suspense fiction, Penitentiary, Paranormal fiction, Prisoners, death row, Prison wardens, African American healers, miracles, serialised fiction, serial, First-person narrative, nursing homes, rape, Cajuns, arsonists, Native Americans, insurance fraud, psychiatric hospitals, electrodes, electric chairs, electric current, psychics, urinary tract infections, empathy, straitjackets, solitary confinement, catatonia, supernatural, mystery and detective stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Cuentos de terror, Ficción, Prisiones, Chang pian xiao shuo, Coffey, john (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, horror, Georgia, fiction, John Coffey (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: United States, Briar Ridge, Georgia Pines, Cold Mountain Penitentiary, E Block, Green Mile, Death Row
People: Bowser, Mr. Jingles, Sir Galahad, Steamboat Willie, Christopher, Danielle, Hermione, Lionel, Tessa, Curtis Anderson, Jane Austen, Kent Avery, Battle, Arlen Bitterbuck, Hank Bitterman, Will Bonney, Sam Broderick Catlett, John Coffey, Elaine Connelly, Cray, Homer Cribus, Mrs. Cribus, Jeff David, Eduard Delacroix, Roy Delfines, Cora Detterick Howard Detterick Kathe Detterick, Klaus Detterick, Marjorie Detterick, Bill Dodge, Brad Dolan, Pastor Donaldson, Duplissey, Janice Edgecombe, Paul Edgecombe, Paul Edgecombe Sr., Arthur Flanders, Toot-Toot Gibbons, Arden Hammersmith, Burt Hammersmith, Caleb Hammersmith, Cynthia Hammersmith, Miss Hannah, Dr. Haverstrom, Sam Hollis, Herbert Hoover, Brutus Howell, Chuck Howland, Mrs. Javits, Magnusson, Elmer Manfred, Bobo Marchant, Beverly McCall, Lester McCall, Rob McGee, Hal Moores, Melinda Moores, Clarence Mulford, George Peterson, Eve Price, Anthony Ray, Ringgold, Robinette, Roosevelt, Betsy Ross, Dr. Sadler, Brother Schuster, Daphne Shurtleff, Dean Stanton, Harry Terwilliger, Hack Van Hay, Percy Wetmore, Rolfe Wettermark, Mrs. Wharton, William Wharton, Richard Widmark
Time periods: 1932