began working everyday on this new obsession until in 1987 it was finished. Writing a book and publishing a book are all together different things. However, through perseverance he got his new book published a year later. The publisher changed the name of the book from Deathkneel to A Time to Kill. Grisham had already begun work on the new book that would later make him a success. The Firm hit newsstands in 1989 and shortly there after John Grisham became an overnight success. With the success of the Firm and Grisham's zeal for writing books he left the House of Representatives, his law firm and his humble beginnings of Southaven to settle in a rural Victorian mansion in Oxford, Mississippi; or on a plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia (Bradstrom). Since then John has written a book a year, that's ten all together and everyone has made its way to the top of the bestselle
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