He is called the king of legal thrillers, and this has its own truth, because John Grisham is a former lawyer. He went from being a simple criminal lawyer to a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives. This vast experience has become the basis for writing great detective novels.
Grisham's novels are highly accurate because most of them are based on real stories. His bestselling books Time to Kill, The Client and The Firm have served as the basis for Hollywood movie scripts.
Biography
John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, USA in 1955. His father grew cotton on his farm, and his mother was a housewife. The boy grew up athletic and dreamed of being a professional baseball player. However, at one of the matches he was injured and had to give up his dream.
The Grisham family was very religious, and this circumstance greatly influenced the boy. He even wanted to become a missionary to preach Christianity.
From an early age, John found a feasible job and helped the family financially. At 17, he became a road worker - their team was laying asphalt. Once a dispute broke out among two brigades, it came to shooting. After that, Grisham seriously thought about choosing a profession: he realized that he did not want to be a simple worker.
He applied to Mississippi Northwestern College. Did not finish his studies, went to the University in Cleveland. Finally, he became a college-educated accountant. However, he was so pleased to learn new things that he soon began to study at the School of Law, which was at the University of Mississippi. He was very interested in jurisprudence, he began to study this science seriously, and by 1981 he became a doctor of sciences in the field of civil law.
Literary career
Grisham worked as a lawyer for ten years, and all these years the plots of novels ripened in his head, because what the victims told in the courtroom was very impressive. It was in court that John got the idea for the first novel, Time to Kill. He printed it with great difficulty, after almost thirty refusals from publishers.
In 1991, he wrote the novel The Firm, in which a lawyer collects dirt on his dishonest colleagues. The novel brought the writer great fame. It sold one and a half million books in two years, the novel itself was on the bestseller list and stayed there for almost a year.
After this success, Grisham left his legal profession and devoted himself entirely to literary creativity. Since then, he has written numerous legal thrillers that have enjoyed consistent success.
A special place in his work is occupied by a collection about Theodore Boone, a graduate of lawyers. The readers fell in love with the first story so much that Grisham was forced to write a sequel, and the result was a collection of six parts about the same character.
Personal life
John Grisham is married - his wife Renee Jones gave him two children. Shea's daughter works as a teacher and is very fond of her father's novels. Ty's son became a baseball player - he realized John's dream.
The Grisham Family owns several homes, including a home in Destin, near Britney Spears' cottage.
