John Grisham

John Grisham is the king of legal thrillers, who is professionally grounded in the field of law, which gives the works of authenticity and special charm. His bestsellers "The Firm", "It's Time to Kill", "The Client" are used to make Hollywood films that add more drama to the stories of the heroes: unfairly convicted, dying, defenseless and, on the contrary, ready to fight to the last drop of blood.

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born on February 8, 1955 in the American city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, the son of Wanda (née Skidmore) and John Ray Grisham. Mother is a housewife, father was engaged in construction and growing cotton. The boy is the second of five children. When he was 4 years old, the family moved to South Haven, Minnesota.

As a child, Grisham wanted to become a baseball player. Dreams came true in the life-story The Painted House (2001), about a 7-year-old farm boy who wanted to devote himself to sports. The book "Joe of Calico" (2012) describes a fact from the biography of the writer, because of which, at the age of 18, Grisham gave up baseball: the opposing team's server inflicted a serious injury on the young man with a ball. From the age of 8, John was a Christian. During his student years, he even traveled to Brazil to spread his beliefs.

John started working early - at the age of 14 he watered bushes in kindergarten, repaired fences, and later grew up to be a plumber. At the age of 17, his father put him in a road crew as an asphalt paver, where an accident happened to the young man, which made him seriously think about college. The workers of the two brigades started a fight, and it came to shooting. Frightened, Grisham hid in the closet and sat there until the police arrested the criminals.

The American realized that he did not want to spend his life in search of work, and entered the Northwest College of Mississippi, then - at Cleveland State University, Ohio. John changed 3 institutions before graduating. He graduated from Mississippi State University in 1977 with a BA in Accounting.

Grisham decided to deepen his knowledge and entered the School of Law at the University of Mississippi as a tax lawyer. Jurisprudence turned out to be more interesting than economics, and in 1981 the young man received his doctorate in civil law.

For 10 years, Grisham worked as a lawyer, defending the interests of citizens in criminal and personal injury cases. A successful legal career helped the American in 1983 to be elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. The annual salary was $ 8,000.

In 1984, in a Clinton, Mississippi courtroom, Grisham heard testimony from the victims of rape and beatings: 12-year-old Marcy Scott and her 16-year-old sister Julie. The tragic story interested the lawyer, and he wondered what would have happened if the girls' father had dealt with the offenders in cold blood with his own hand. This is how the idea of ​​the first legal thriller Time to Kill was born.

When implementing the plan, John was inspired by Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, so the key idea of ​​the novel is a racial clash: the father of a raped girl, an African American, kills criminals - white guys. Members of the Ku Klux Klan begin the hunt for Jake Breigens, a lawyer who defends blacks. It was difficult to find a publisher for the debut work. Grisham received 28 rejections until the Wynwood Press agreed to print 5,000 copies in June 1989.

Immediately after writing Time to Kill, the American took up the novel The Firm (1991) about a lawyer who collects dirt on colleagues who launder money for the mafia. It turned out to be a triumph: the work stayed on the list of bestsellers "The New York Times" for 47 weeks, in 2 years it sold 1.5 million copies. The success of the novel convinced Grisham to abandon his court practice. Only once, in 1996, he defended the interests of the family of a railroad worker who was killed at work.

In subsequent years, John continued to write legal thrillers: The Client (1993), The Camera (1994), The Verdict (1996), The Partner (1997), The Lawyer (1998). A series of similar works was interrupted by the novel "The Painted House", which tells about the author's childhood in Arkansas, filled with baseball, picking cotton and a constant struggle against poverty.

The sports theme in Grisham's work can be traced in the novels Tribunes (2003), Last Chance (2007), Joe from Calico. And "Gray Mountain" (2014) is the first work of an American in which the main character is a lawyer - a woman.

In addition to individual novels, John's bibliography contains collections. So, in 2010 the book “Crime without punishment. Theodore Boone - Little Lawyer ”about a boy raised by lawyers. Unwittingly, he becomes a witness to a scene that can radically change the course of the trial. People refuse to accept the words of an inexperienced teenager, exposing the photo of his authorship, but Theodore believes that he is obliged to tell the world the truth, otherwise the crime will remain unpunished.

Readers warmly welcomed the new character, and Grisham wrote a second story about the little lawyer, titled Kidnapping (2011), where Theodore investigates the disappearance of a school friend. In the short story "The Accused" (2012), a teenager becomes a suspect in a crime that he did not commit. He needs to justify himself.

In the novella Activist (2013), Boone makes legally savvy, curious friends. Together they get in the way of corrupt politicians. But the "rich" intend to achieve what they want, even if for this they have to get rid of teenagers in cruel ways.

After a long hiatus, in 2016, the sixth and currently the last novel in the Theodore Boone: Scandal series was released. In it, the young detective faced falsification of the exam results. Young readers liked the stories about Theodore: Shea, the daughter of Grisham, a teacher, gave books to schoolchildren to read, and many of them decided to connect their lives with jurisprudence.

Ideas for new works never run out of ideas in the author's mind. In 2017, John wrote The Scam, a novel about three teenagers who are hostage to a private law school foundation's scam. The law is on the side of fraudsters, so students dare to use not entirely legal methods. Other characters, also young lawyers, are in the center of attention of the American's most recent novel, Reckoning (2018).

John Grisham's books are being actively filmed by Hollywood producers, and the first film to be released is The Firm (1993) based on the bestseller of the same name. The main role was played by Tom Cruise. The attention of the famous actor to the work of the American not only convinced the other filmmakers to take up the creation of video versions of Grisham's works, but also attracted interest in reading novels.

In the same 1993, The Pelican Affair appeared with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washinton, a year later, Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones starred in the film adaptation of The Client.

The debut novel, Time to Kill, received the film version 7 years after it was written, in 1996. In the role of the inconsolable father, who avenged his daughter's injuries, Samuel L. Jackson appeared, and Matthew McConaughey played the lawyer. The cast also includes Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Kiefer and Donald Sutherland. The script adaptation earned Grisham $ 6 million.

The film adaptation of Golden Rain (1995), a novel about the pursuit of an insurance firm by a young lawyer, was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film was titled "Benefactor" (1997), starring Danny DeVito and Matt Damon. In 2017, CBS announced the filming of a series based on this work. John Grisham acts as a screenwriter.

After the film adaptation of "Christmas with the Losers" (2004), the work of the American ceased to interest Hollywood. Grisham tried to linger in the cinema and wrote the original script for the Mickey movie about the talented 12-year-old baseball player. The picture, however, did not impress the audience: the box office totaled only $ 294 thousand with a budget of $ 6 million.

John Grisham's personal life is developing no less successfully than his literary career. On May 8, 1981, the writer married Renee Jones. In the marriage, two children were born: daughter Shia and son Tai. The boy inherited his father's love for sports, he plays baseball for the University of Virginia.

The family owns several houses, including a cottage on the best beach in the United States - in Destin, Florida. The house is adjacent to the possessions of Britney Spears and Sherrill Crow.

In addition to writing books, Grisham is currently a member of the board of directors of Project Innocence, which campaigns for the release of unjustly convicted people on the basis of DNA tests. In support of the project, the former lawyer noted that in practice there are analyzes with defects, and it is necessary to re-check.

The writer opposes the death penalty and considers the terms of imprisonment provided by the US justice system too harsh. As an example, he cited "difficult" teenagers who sell drugs to earn money for bread, and those who watch pornography. Grisham argued that not all child porn viewers are necessarily pedophiles. This point of view was criticized by the public, and the writer later recanted his words in a post on Facebook.

The American left baseball as a player but continues to follow the sport. In 1996, he spent $ 3.8 million building a children's baseball school in Oxford and also sponsors the Cavalier team in Coversville, Virginia.

1989 - Time to Kill 1991 - The Firm 1993 - The Client 1998 - The Lawyer 2000 - The Blackmail 2001 - The Painted House 2004 - The Last Juror 2012 - The Racketeer 2014 - The Gray Mountain 2017 - "Camino Island" 2017 - "Scam" 2018 - "Payback"

1993 - The Firm 1993 - The Pelican Case 1994 - The Client 1996 - The Time to Kill 1996 - The Camera 1997 - The Benefactor 2003 - The Painted House 2003 - The Money Verdict 2004 - Mickey "2004 -" Christmas with the Losers "

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