John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American bestselling writer, attorney, politician, and activist best known for his popular . His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.
John Grisham graduated from before attending the in 1981. He practiced criminal law for about a decade and served in the House of Representatives in from January 1984 to September 1990.
Obviously, almost all of his books are all about law for he began writing a story after hearing 12-year-old girl telling the jury what had happened to her. 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 , that a story was born. Musing over "what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants", Grisham took three years to complete his first book, A Time to Kill.
Finding a publisher was not easy. The book was rejected by 28 publishers before Wynwood Press, an unknown publisher, agreed to give it a modest 5,000-copy printing. It was published in June 1989. 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." The Firm remained on the The New York Times' bestseller list for 47 weeks and became the .
In an October 2006 interview on the , Grisham stated that he usually takes only six months to write a book, and his favorite author is .
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