John Grisham the lawyer turned writer, grew up in a small southern Baptist family. When he went off to college studied law, he began to write his first book “A Time to Kill” in the early eighties. “A Time to Kill” features a father who shoots the two men who raped his twelve year old daughter.
When he finished with “A Time to Kill” he went directly into the story of “The Firm.” It is the story of a young lawyer who was offered a deal he could not turn down with a high end Memphis law firm. He should have turned down, as he later finds out, when the FBI began to question him. It took Grisham five years to write these two books, from 1984-1989. After the release of “The Firm” Grisham's life began to change and he began to write full time.
Most of Grisham's books are based in the courtroom with the exception of “Playing for Pizza.” It is the story of a big league football quarter back who has fallen on hard times and takes a job in Italy. The Innocent Man is a story of a real life courtroom drama based on an actual case in Ada, Oklahoma, where two men convicted of murder are eventually set free and the real killers convicted.
John Grisham has written 21 books from 1989 to 2008 and says of his success, “I did not plan to be successful, this is something that could only happen in America.”
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