John Grisham is an American novelist, born on 8 February 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He read accounting and then law at the University of Mississippi, practised for about ten years as a criminal defence attorney, and sat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. His first novel, A Time to Kill (1989), was turned down by twenty-eight publishers; The Firm (1991) made his name, followed by The Pelican Brief (1992), The Client (1993), The Chamber (1994) and The Rainmaker (1995). He returned to the lawyer Jake Brigance in Sycamore Row (2013) and A Time for Mercy (2020), wrote seven Theodore Boone novels for younger readers, and published one work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man (2006). He sits on the board of the Innocence Project.
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John Grisham is an American novelist, born on 8 February 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He read accounting and then law at the University of Mississippi, practised for about ten years as a criminal defence attorney, and sat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. His first novel, A Time to Kill (1989), was turned down by twenty-eight publishers; The Firm (1991) made his name, followed by The Pelican Brief (1992), The Client (1993), The Chamber (1994) and The Rainmaker (1995). He returned to the lawyer Jake Brigance in Sycamore Row (2013) and A Time for Mercy (2020), wrote seven Theodore Boone novels for younger readers, and published one work of non-fiction, The Innocent Man (2006). He sits on the board of the Innocence Project.
