John Grisham by Sebastian and Yarden

His life and his family. John Ray Grisham, Jr., born February 8, 1955 is an American lawyer, politician, and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into forty-two languages. Grisham married Renee Jones on May 8, 1981, and the couple have two children together: Shea and Ty.[4] The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi, and a home near Charlottesville, Virginia.

John Grisham, the second oldest of five siblings, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas.  His father worked as a construction worker and a cotton farmer, while his mother was a homemaker. When Grisham was four years old, his family started traveling around the South, until they finally settled in  Mississippi.   As a child, Grisham wanted to be a baseball player. Despite the fact that Grisham's parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged her son to read and prepare for college.

His career WHAT DID HE STUDY?????? Grisham said the big case came in 1984, but it was not his case. As he was hanging around the court, he overheard a 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 The New York Times, 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.

The client is a fast- moving thriller set in the southern united states. Mark Sway is a bright eleven- year-old who comes face to face with violence the likes of which he has previously seen only on television. Possessing dangerous information, he finds himself caught between the interests of the law and the mafia. The Firm is a 1991 legal thriller and the second novel by John Grisham. It was his first widely recognized book, and in 1993 after it sold 1.5 million copies.

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns  that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was  no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant  guess. To the Washington establishment it was  political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Somewhere between the bayous of  Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.