His next work was in retail, as a salesclerk in a department store men's underwear section, which he described as "humiliating". He hitchhiked home and started thinking about college. He did not come out until after the police had detained the perpetrators.
A fight with gunfire broke out among the crew, causing Grisham to run to a nearby restroom to find safety. It was during this time that an unfortunate incident got him "serious" about college. Through one of his father's contacts, he managed to find work on a highway asphalt crew in Mississippi at age 17. At 16, Grisham took a job with a plumbing contractor but says he "never drew inspiration from that miserable work". He wrote about the job: "there was no future in it". He was soon promoted to a fence crew for $1.50 an hour.
Grisham started working for a plant nursery as a teenager, watering bushes for $1.00 an hour. He drew on his childhood experiences for his novel A Painted House. As noted in the foreword to Calico Joe, Grisham gave up playing baseball at the age of 18, after a game in which a pitcher aimed a beanball at him, and narrowly missed, doing the young Grisham grave harm.Īlthough Grisham's parents lacked formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and prepare for college. Īs a child, he wanted to be a baseball player. When Grisham was four years old, his family settled in Southaven, Mississippi, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. His father was a construction worker and a cotton farmer, and his mother was a homemaker. Grisham, the second of five children, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham. Seven of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas.
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Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies, and was also adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which continues the story ten years after the events of the film and novel. It was later adapted into the 1996 feature film of the same name.
Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. He practised criminal law for about a decade and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. ( / ˈ ɡ r ɪ ʃ ə m/ born February 8, 1955) is an American novelist, lawyer and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his best selling legal thrillers.
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