John Grisham

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John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955) is an American novelist, advocate, and campaigner best known for his popular legal thrillers.

His books have been translated into 42 languages and widely distributed around the world. Grisham earned a J.D. at Mississippi State University and graduated from Mississippi State University. In 1981, a degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law was granted.

He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from January 1984 to September 1990, his first book, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he first started writing it. His books have been sold over 275 million copies around the world as of 2012.

Grisham, a first-winning winner of the Galaxy British Book Awards, is one of only three writers to sell two million copies on a first printing, the other two being Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling.

The book was made into a 1993 feature film starring Tom Cruise, as well as a 2012 television series which continues the tale ten years after the film and novel's conclusion.

Eight of his other books have been turned into films, including The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, and A Time to Kill.

The Guardians, Grisham's latest book (which also happens to be his 40th published book), delves into Cullen Post, a defense lawyer and Episcopal priest who works to reverse a wrong conviction.

Early life

Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham. His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker. His family immigrated from Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, when Grisham was four years old.

He aspired to be a baseball player as an infant. Grisham quit playing baseball at the age of 18, after a game in which a pitcher fired a beanball at him and barely avoided doing the young Grisham grave harm.

Although Grisham's parents were lacking formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and prepare for college. For his book A Painted House, he drew on his childhood experiences. Grisham started working as a child and was selling watering bushes at $1.00 an hour. He was soon promoted to a fence crew at $1.50 an hour. "There was no future in it," he wrote about the work. Grisham began working as a plumber, but claims he "never got inspired from that miserable work."

He managed to find work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at the age of 17. It was during this period that an unfortunate occurrence made him "serious" about college. Within the crew, a gunfight erupted, prompting Grisham to run to a nearby toilet to find safety. He did not come out until the cops had arrested the criminals. He stayed home and began to worry about college. His next job was in retail as a salesclerk in a department store's underwear section, which he described as "humiliating." By this time, Grisham was halfway through college. He was soon overwhelmed by "the intricacy and lunacy" of becoming a tax advocate. He returned to his hometown as a trial advocate.

He attended Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi, and later attended Delta State University in Cleveland. Grisham changed colleges three times before obtaining a degree. He graduated from Mississippi State University in 1977, earning a B.S. A degree in accounting. He later enrolled in the University of Mississippi School of Law to become a tax attorney, but his attention shifted to general civil litigation. He received his J.D. in 1981. Degrees are not related to the degree.

He served in some missionary service in Brazil under the First Baptist Church of Oxford after graduating law school.

Personal life

Renee Jones was married on May 8, 1981, by Grisham. Shea and Ty's are the couple's two children.

The family splits their time among their two families in Charlottesville, Virginia, a home in Destin, Florida, and a condo in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ole Miss was given a former and long-serving Victorian home on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi, in 2011.

Grisham, a member of the University Baptist Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, which is also a member of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Grisham rejects a literalist interpretation of the Bible and favors the separation of church and state in the United States.

Grisham has a lifelong passion for baseball, as shown in part by his support for Little League teams in Oxford, Mississippi, and Charlottesville. Grisham constructed a $3.8 million youth baseball complex in 1996.

In A Painted House, a book with strong autobiographical elements, the protagonist, a seven-year-old farmer boy, displays a longing to be a baseball player.

In the introduction to the book Dudy Noble Field: A Celebration of MSU Baseball, he continues to be a fan of Mississippi State University's baseball team, as well as his links to the university and the Left Field Lounge.

Since moving to Charlottesville, Grisham has been an advocate for Virginia Cavaliers athletics and is often seen at basketball games. Grisham has also contributed to a $1.2 million donation to the Cavalier baseball team in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was included in the 2002 renovation of Davenport Field. Ty's uncle, Ty, played college baseball for the University of Virginia.

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Career

Grisham served in law for about a decade and gained the election as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. He chastised Mississippi's national fame and was influenced by the 1982 passage of the Education Reform Act. Grisham was a member of the DeSoto County, Mississippi, district. He was both the vice chairman of the Apportionment and Elections Committee and a member of several other committees during his second term in the state legislature. Representative Ed Perry's unsuccessful bid for House speakership in 1987 supported him. Grisham was out of favour with the new legislative officers and was assigned to additional minor committee positions in 1988, despite being elected by a new speaker at the start of the 1988 legislative session. He took time to his book, The Firm, when not busy with political affairs. Grisham later said that if Perry had become speaker, he might have been given more committee assignments and, therefore, unable to write.

Grisham's writing career flourished with the success of his second book, The Firm, and he gave up practicing law except for briefly in 1996 to represent the family of a railroad employee who was killed on the job. "He was honoring a pledge made before he had left the court to become a full-time writer," his official website states. Grisham successfully litigated his clients' case, receiving them a $683,500 jury award, the highest verdict of his career.

Grisham said a case that inspired his first book in 1984 occurred, but not his story. A 12-year-old girl told a jury what had happened to her. Grisham's tale piqued her interest. As she told the members of the jury that they had been assaulted and assaulted, she heard how they cries. "I remember being staring at the defendant and wishing I had a pistol." A novel was born then, Grisham later wrote in The New York Times that a story was published. A Time to Kill was his first book written over the next three years. Before Wynwood Press, an unidentified publisher, decided to give it a modest 5,000 copy print, it was rejected by 28 publishers. It was first published in June 1988.

The Firm, Grisham's second book, began the day the day after he had finished A Time to Kill. The firm remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 47 weeks, and it became the seventh best-selling book since 1991. This will be the start of a streak of having one of the top ten selling books of the year for nearly two decades. He had the second best-selling book of the year in 1992 and 1993, and with The Pelican Brief and The Client, he had the most bestselling book of the year, and every year. Grisham did not have the best selling book of the year in 2001, but he did have both the second and third books on the list, as well as A Painted House.

The firm was turned into a film starring Tom Cruise in 1992 and was released in June 1993, grossing $270 million. Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington appeared in a film version of The Pelican Brief later this year and grossed $195 million. Regency Enterprises paid Grisham $2.25 million for the rights to The Client, which was released in 1994 starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones and then Universal Pictures paid him the most money for an unpublished book, paying $3.75 million for the rights to The Chamber. New Regency paid a record $6 million for the rights to A Time to Kill in August 1994, with Grisham demanding that Joel Schumacher, the client's director, guarantee that the director of the Client, Joel Schumacher, be responsible.

Beginning with A Painted House, Grisham expanded his attention from law to the more rural South, but he continued to write legal thrillers at a breakneck pace of one year. With The Summons, he once more claimed the year's top bestseller of the year. He was out of the top-five bestsellers of the year in 2003 and 2004, but he did not write two books in the year, which ended in the top 5. The Last Juror, who died at number four in 2004, overtook The Da Vinci Code in 2005 and returned to the top of the year with The Broker. 2006 marked the first time since 1990 that he did not have one of the year's best-selling books, but he returned to number one in 2008 and number two in 2009.

He has also written sports fiction and comedies. He wrote the original screenplay for and produced Mickey, which starred Harry Connick Jr.

In 2005, Grisham received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, which is distributed annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.

Grisham began writing a series of legal thrillers for children in 2010. It's based on Theodore Boone, a 13-year-old boy who gives his classmates legal assistance, from saving impounded dogs to assisting their parents in preventing their house from being repossessed. "I'm mainly hoping to entertain and interest kids, but at the same time, I'm hoping the books will teach them about law in a subtle way," he said.

Shea, his mother, inspired him to write the Theodore Boone series, according to Heard. "My daughter Shea is a teacher in North Carolina, and when she encouraged her fifth grade students to read the book, three or four of them came up later and said they wanted to work in law."

Grisham claimed in a Charlie Rose show interview in October 2006 that he writes a book in six months, and his favorite author is John le Carré.

In 2011, and 2012, his books The Litigators and The Racketeer debuted on The New York Times best seller list. The novels were one of the best-selling books of those years, despite several weeks on various best seller lists. In 2013, he ranked fourth on the top-seller list in the United States. In November 2015, Rogue Lawyer, his book, was at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers for two weeks.

Grisham published two court dramas in 2017 on Grisham. On June 6, 2017, Camino Island was announced. The book debuted on many best seller lists, including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

In The News Herald, the Rooster Bar, which appeared on October 24, 2017, was described as "his most original work to date" and a "buoyant, mischievous thriller" in The New York Times.

Several of Grisham's legal dramas take place in Clanton, Mississippi, which is also named Ford County, a northwest Mississippi town that is still divided by bigotry. A Time to Kill was the first novel set in Clanton.

Several tales were set there, including The Last Juror, The Summons, The Chamber, The Reckoning, A Time for Mercy, and Sycamore Row. The stories in the collection Ford County are also set in and around Clanton. For example, The Partner and The Runaway Jury are set in Biloxi, and major portions of The Pelican Brief in New Orleans have non-fictional Southern settings, as shown in The Partner and The Runaway Jury.

In and around Black Oak, Arkansas, where Grisham spent part of his childhood, he is portrayed.

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Awards and honors

• 1993 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
• 2005 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
• 2007 Galaxy British Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2009 Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction
• 2011 The inaugural Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for The Confession
• 2014 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for Sycamore Row