Favourite authors-John Grisham

John Grisham, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Southern Baptist parents in a lower middle class family as we call it now. His father was as a construction worker who chipped in as a cotton farmer while his mother was a homemaker. In 1967 the family settled in the town of Southaven, Mississippi, where Grisham graduated High School. by his mother, the young Grisham was an avid reader, and was especially influenced by the work of John Steinbeck whose clarity he admired. In 1977 Grisham received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Mcquades children services. While studying at MSU, the author began to keep a journal, a practice that would later assist in his creative endeavors. He earned his degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. During law school Grisham switched interests from tax law to criminal and general civil litigation. Upon graduation he entered a small-town general law practice for nearly a decade in Southaven, where he focused on criminal law and civil law representing a broad spectrum of clients. As a young attorney he spent much of his time in court proceedings.
In 1984 at the De Soto County courthouse in Hernando, Grisham witnessed the harrowing testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim. According to Grisham's official website, Grisham used his spare time to begin work on his first novel, which explored what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. He spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, the manuscript was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing and published it in June 1988.
The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel, the story of a young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. That second book, The Firm, became the 7th bestselling novel of 1991. Grisham then went on to produce at least one work a year, most of them widely popular bestsellers. He is the only person to author a number-one bestselling novel of the year for seven consecutive years (1994–2000).
Grisham returned briefly to the courtroom in 1996 after a five-year hiatus. According to his official website, he "was honoring a commitment he made before he had retired from the law...representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars...Grisham successfully argued his clients' case, earning them a jury award of $683,500" Another tie to the legal community that he continues to hold is his seat on the Board of Directors for the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating the innocent through DNA testing after they have been convicted.
He has become very famous in Hollywood circuits with a number of his books being made into movies that have proved to be blockbusters at the Box Office. Its not just the books that seemed to be loved by all but also the characterization with almost all his novels set up in the courtroom set up.

A list of his Bestsellers can be given as follows:

· A Time to Kill

· The Firm

· The Pelican Brief

· The Client

· The Chamber

· The Rainmaker

· The Runaway Jury

· The Partner

· The Street Lawyer

· The Testament

· The Brethren

· The Summons

· The King of Torts

· The Last Juror

· The Broker

· The Appeal