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, he 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 w
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