Biography of John Grisham
John Grisham became a world famous writer with his book The Firm. Although he never wanted to be a writer, he has now written over nine books, many of them best- sellers (Arnold 29). Examining his writing will show why John Grisham quit his previous job as a lawyer. I will start by telling about his childhood, education, family, then on to his career. John Grisham led a mostly normal childhood. Grisham was born in 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas (Current 221). The son of a construction worker and a homemaker, Grisham and his family moved around the deep South according to where his father's work was (Ferranti 43). In 1967 the Grisham family moved to a permanent residence in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee (Current 221). John Grisham said, "We didn't have a lot of money, but we didn't know it, we were fed and loved and scrubbed" (Hubbard 44). Along with being a famous writer, Grisham is also a devout Christian. While his father usually had to work seven days a week, Grisham's mother always had Grisham and his four siblings in church every Sunday. Grisham said, "My mother led me to Jesus." He was eight-years-old when he confirmed his faith in God and says "It was the most important event in my life" (Nort
John Grisham leads a quite life due to the fact that he is usually writing. But in 1996 Grisham decided to sue Oliver Stone, the director of the movie Natural Born Killers. Grisham was suing because in March 1995 William Savage, a friend of Grisham's was shot at the cotton gin where he worked in Mississippi. The next day a convenience store clerk Patsy Byers was shot and paralyzed. Ben Darras, 18, and Sarah Edmondson, 19, were accused of the crimes. Edmondson told authorities she and Darras took LSD and watched Natural Born Killers before committing the crimes. This angered Grisham who decided to sue, but Stone called all the charges against him, "Ridiculously bizarre" (Gleick 90). Grisham's inspiration for writing hit him one day when he never expected it. One day at the De Soto County courthouse, Grisham listened to the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. Grisham wondered what it would be like if the girl's father had killed the rapist and was then put on trial himself (Hubbard 43). Grisham quit the possession of being a lawyer in 1990. This was the inspiration to Grisham's first book. A Time to Kill gathered twenty-eight rejections before it was accepted and published by Wynwood Press. His next book, the book Grisham is most famous for, The Firm also racked up the rejections from publishers. When the copy of The Firm landed in Hollywood, everyone wanted it; eighteen publishers begged Grisham to let them publish it (Hubbard 44). Grisham went on to write nine more
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