John Grisham
John Grisham has risen from a poor boy to a very a famous and successful author with best-selling novels. He has had eleven excellent books published and will soon have his twelfth novel published. Grisham has used his education in law to write innovative novels about court cases and lawyers. Although becoming an author was far off from his childhood dream of playing professional baseball, he is living the dream of many young aspiring authors. John Grisham has become a celebrity by having over sixty million of his books in print worldwide and having six novels turned into blockbuster films. With a bachelor's degree in law and gift to write, Grisham has become the best law-writer of our time. (John 2). John Grisham was born in 1955 in Arkansas to a construction worker and a housewife. His early years were rough ones. His father traveled all over the country looking for work as a construction worker, dragging his wife and five children with him. He remembers, "We didn't have a lot of money but we didn't know it..." Grisham became interested in reading at an early age. At each new town his family stayed in, he would go to the library to get a library card. Although he enjoyed he enjoyed reading, h
Despite being criticized for his novels being very similar to each other, Grisham has managed to release one best-seller after another. Although he dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, he has lived a very productive life and has achieved much more than he ever could have if he was a professional athlete. Grisham has led a very successful life and has shown the possibilities of trying new things and accepting change. e wasn't exactly an "excellent student." He focused more on sports than academics. In 1967, Grisham's family moved to Southaven, Mississippi where they finally settled down. In high school, he took an interest in sports, especially baseball. After high school, he attended Mississippi State where he studied to become a tax lawyer. He earned his bachelor's degree and moved on to the University of Mississippi where he received a law degree. By then he felt sure of himself that he was going to become a lawyer. He started a private practice in criminal law in Southaven. Although Grisham won his cases in both criminal and civl law, he was finding that he could not be satisfied with working as a lawyer and he wanted to try something new (Chenes 115-16). Grisham started out with dreams of playing professional baseball, became a lawyer, served in the Mississippi state Legislature, and now he was going to become an author? Dissatisfied with being a lawyer, Grisham felt he needed to make a difference in the world. He wanted to bring about changes to his state's educational system. In 1983, Grisham was elected to the Mississippi state legislature. Being a politician was not as he imagined. He worked his heart out with up to eighty-hour weeks. After seven years of working in the legislature, he still was not able to change
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