John Grisham

• Birth name:

  John Grisham Jr.

• Date of Birth:

  8 February 1955 Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA

• Height:

  6' 1" (1.85 m)

A graduate of Mississippi State University and Ole Miss Law School, he finished his law degree in 1981 and afterward practiced law for about 10 years, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1983 and served until 1990. John Grisham recently gave up his law practice to write full-time. He began writing in 1984, and three years later finished his first novel, A Time To Kill, published by Wynwood Press in June 1988. He is the best-se... more

A graduate of Mississippi State University and Ole Miss Law School, he finished his law degree in 1981 and afterward practiced law for about 10 years, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1983 and served until 1990. John Grisham recently gave up his law practice to write full-time. He began writing in 1984, and three years later finished his first novel, A Time To Kill, published by Wynwood Press in June 1988. He is the best-selling author of A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief and The Client. He lives with his wife and their two children on a farm in Oxford, Mississippi.