John Grisham led a mostly normal childhood. He was born on the 8th of February, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. 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. After living in five different cities, the Grisham family moved to a permanent residence in Southaven, Mississippi in 1967. Although his parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and insisted that he prepare himself for college. (John Grisham, Best-Selling Author, Biography) Taking his mother’s advice, Grisham became a very avid reader while growing up and visited the town library often. �

The fall after graduation, he started school at Northwest Junior College in Senatobia, Mississippi and played baseball there his first year. “The next year he transferred to Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, and tried out to play baseball there.” (Hosie, Sean) However, after only one semester at Delta State University he realized that he didn’t have a future in baseball, so Grisham and his roommates transferred to Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. His friends and he started out majoring in forestry at MSU, but Grisham quickly changed to economics. At first he didn’t like Mississippi State, but soon after he became so interested in the class discussions there that he decided to get his grades back on track and earn a degree in accounting. “While studying at MSU, the author began keeping a journal, a practice that would later assist in his creative endeavors.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ John_Grisham) In 1977, Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University with a B.S. in accounting.

John Grisham’s writing career was inspired by the testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim that he overheard at the Dessoto County Courthouse. This inspiration sparked a novel that explored “what would have happened if the girl’s father had murdered her assailants.” (About the Author) After three years of writing, his first novel, A Time to Kill, was finally finished in 1987. Grisham’s book was rejected by many publishers before it was finally bought by Wynwood press. They printed 5,000 copies and published it in June, 1988. Although this was a big set-back for him, he had already started on another book. His second book was completed in 1988. The Firm was “the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared.” (About the Author) In 1990, Grisham sold the film rights to this novel to Param

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