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This is my biography on John Grisham While doing this I enjoyed researching John Grisham and learning more about the famous author. Next time I will add in more information about my writer.

John Grisham

John grisham was born on the eighth of february in 1995 this makes him age 62. He was born in jonesboro , Arkansas , United states of america. He was born to mother Wanda skidmore Grisham who worked as a homemaker and Father John Grisham who worked in construction as you may realise John was named after his father. Currently John Grisham is married to Renee Jones. They have no children together and none of them have children with others.

When John was younger he dreamed to be a professional baseball player, When he realized he wasn’t good enough to go pro he switched careers and went to mississippi state university to major in accounting . After that he went on to become a lawyer by graduating from Ole miss in 1981. Once graduating from Ole miss he went to south haven to study for over a decade  specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983 he was elected to the state house of representatives he served until 1990 which is until he was 35. When he was a little older he came across a case and thought if I put a twist on this could I write a book ? so he  began getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. The genre of the first book he wrote is a legal thriller . The novel was originally rejected by many publishers before wynwood press finally gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing they published it in june of 1988.

For John this was a new hobby but what he didn’t know is that it would turn into a lifetime career. By the time wynwood press finally published it he was already on his second book as it took them a whole year just to publish it. In fact once he finished his first book a time to kill he almost immediately started a new book the story of a young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. When he sold the film rights to paramount pictures he gained $600,000 , book rights were bought by Doubleday.John Grisham's books spent 47 weeks straight on the new york times bestsellers list The firm (his second book) became the bestselling novel of 1991.

Since writing his first novel A time to kill in 1988 he has written one book each year totalling over 40 books . All of these 40 and more books have been international books and for all of his books he has collected over 220 million dollars over his years. He has also turned 13 of his books into movies. One of his movies made over 3.75 million for just one movie . Right now there are over 300 million copies of each of john grisham's books , also all of his books have been translated into over 40 languages. Grisham took time off from writing for numerous months in 1996 to return, after a five-year interval, to the courtroom. He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full-time writer. On his last case he confidently represented the family of a railroad brakeman who was killed whilst pinned in between two cars. He prepared his case with the same energy . passion and dedication as he does when writing a book. Because of his dedication to the case grisham successfully won his case , This flowed in over $650,000 - this was the biggest verdict of his career.

John grisham has many qualities other than Writing and being an advocate he dedicates a lot of time to charitable causes. His most recent helping included raising over 8.8 million dollars to help with the rebuilds to do with hurricane katrina. He also keeps up with his childhood dream baseball  The six ballfields he built on his property have played host to over 350 kids on 26 Little League teams.

While doing this I learned that I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

I also learned that I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.