style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">John Grisham was working as a criminal lawyer at a Mississippi practice when he began to write fiction. His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in 1988 but it wasnâ??t until his second, The Firm, became a bestseller in 1991 that he devoted himself to writing. He went on to publish numerous legal thrillers, including The Pelican Brief (1992) and The Associate (2009). He has sold a total of around 300m books worldwide in 40 languages. Born in Arkansas, US, in 1955, Grisham is married with two children and lives in Virginia.
