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American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 4. John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in Mississippi from January 1. September 1. 99. 0.[4]His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1. As of 2. 01. 2, his books have sold over 2. A Galaxy British Book Awards winner, Grisham is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing.[6]Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies.[2] The book was adapted into a 1.

Tom Cruise, and a 2. TV series which "continues the story of attorney Mitchell Mc. Deere and his family 1. Eight of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, and A Time to Kill.

Early life[edit]Grisham, the second of five siblings, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Grisham.[4] His father worked as a construction worker and a cotton farmer, while his mother was a homemaker.[9] When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi.[4]As a child, he wanted to be a baseball player.[8] Grisham has been a Christian since he was eight years old, and has described his conversion to Christianity as "the most important event" in his life. After leaving law school, he participated in some missionary work in Brazil, under the First Baptist Church of Oxford.[1. Although Grisham's parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and prepare for college.[2] He drew on his childhood experiences for his novel A Painted House.[4]Grisham started working for a nursery as a teenager, watering bushes for US$1. He was soon promoted to a fence crew for US$1. He wrote about the job: "there was no future in it". At 1. 6, Grisham took a job with a plumbing contractor but says he "never drew inspiration from that miserable work". Through a contact of his father's, he managed to find work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at age 1.

It was during this time that an unfortunate incident got him "serious" about college. A fight with gunfire broke out among the crew causing Grisham to run to a nearby restroom to find safety. He did not come out until after the police had detained the perpetrators.

He hitchhiked home and started thinking about college. His next work was in retail, as a salesclerk in a department store men's underwear section, which he described as "humiliating". He decided to quit but stayed when he was offered a raise. He was given another raise after asking to be transferred to toys and then to appliances. A confrontation with a company spy posing as a customer convinced him to leave the store.

By this time, Grisham was halfway through college. Planning to become a tax lawyer, he was soon overcome by "the complexity and lunacy" of it. He decided to return to his hometown as a trial lawyer.[1.

He went to the Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi and later attended Delta State University in Cleveland.[4] Grisham drifted so much that he changed colleges three times before completing a degree.[2]He graduated from Mississippi State University in 1. BS degree in accounting. He later enrolled in the University of Mississippi School of Law to become a tax lawyer, but his interest shifted to general civil litigation. He graduated in 1. JD degree.[4]Law and politics[edit]Grisham practiced law for about a decade and won election as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1. US$8,0. 00.[4][1.

Grisham represented the seventh district, which included De. Soto County.[1. 3] By his second term at the Mississippi state legislature, he was the vice- chairman of the Apportionment and Elections Committee and a member of several other committees.[2]Grisham's writing career blossomed with the success of his second book, The Firm, and he gave up practicing law, except for returning briefly in 1. His official site states: "He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full- time writer. Grisham successfully argued his clients' case, earning them a jury award of US$6. Writing career[edit]. This house in Lepanto, Arkansas, was the house used in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie A Painted House.

Grisham said the big case came in 1. As he was hanging around the court, he overheard a 1. Her story intrigued Grisham, and he began watching the trial.

He saw how the members of the jury cried as she told them about having been raped and beaten. It was then, Grisham later wrote in The New York Times, that a story was born.[1. Musing over "what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants",[9] Grisham took three years to complete his first book, A Time to Kill. Finding a publisher was not easy. The book was rejected by 2. Wynwood Press, an unknown publisher, agreed to give it a modest 5,0. It was published in June 1.

The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on his second novel, The Firm, the story of an ambitious young attorney "lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared."[9]The Firm remained on The New York Times' bestseller list for 4. Beginning with A Painted House in 2.

Grisham broadened his focus from law to the more general rural South but continued to write legal thrillers. He has also written sports fiction and comedy fiction.

He wrote the original screenplay for and produced the 2. Mickey, which starred Harry Connick Jr.[citation needed]In 2. Grisham received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, which is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.[citation needed]In 2. Grisham started writing a series of legal thrillers for children aged 9 to 1. It features Theodore Boone, a 1. He said, "I'm hoping primarily to entertain and interest kids, but at the same time I'm quietly hoping that the books will inform them, in a subtle way, about law."[1.

He also stated that it was his daughter, Shea, who inspired him to write the Theodore Boone series. My daughter Shea is a teacher in North Carolina and when she got her fifth grade students to read the book, three or four of them came up afterwards and said they'd like to go into the legal profession."[1. In an October 2. 00. Charlie Rose show, Grisham stated that he usually takes only six months to write a book, and his favorite author is John le Carré.[1. Southern settings[edit]Several of Grisham's legal thrillers are set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, in the equally fictional Ford County, a northwest Mississippi town still deeply divided by racism. The first novel set in Clanton was A Time to Kill.

Other stories to be set there include The Last Juror, The Summons, The Chamber, and Sycamore Row. The stories in the collection Ford County are also set in and around Clanton. Other Grisham novels have non- fictional Southern settings, for example The Runaway Jury and The Partner, are both set in Biloxi, and large portions of The Pelican Brief in New Orleans. Personal life[edit]Marriage[edit]Grisham married Renee Jones on May 8, 1. The couple have two children together: Shea and Ty.[4]Real estate holdings[edit]The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi, and a home near Charlottesville, Virginia.[9] They also own a home in Destin, Florida.[1.

In 2. 00. 8, he and his wife bought a condominium at Mc. Corkle Place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[2. Religion[edit]As a Baptist, he advocates the separation of church and state.[2. He has said, "I have some very deep religious convictions that I keep to myself, and when I see people using them for political gain it really irritates me."[2.

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