Client by John Grisham
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The Client by John Grisham
The Author:
The international phenomenon that is John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on February 8, 1955. He received an undergraduate degree in accounting from Mississippi State University in 1977 and then attended law school at the University of Mississippi, where he earned a law degree in 1981. That same year, he married Renee Jones and established a law practice in Southaven, where he practiced both criminal and civil law. In 1983, he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives. In 1989 he published his first novel, A Time to Kill. The book received some good reviews but sold only moderately well. Completed in 1988, The Firm would be his break-out hit. In 1990, before the novel was published, Paramount Pictures bought the film rights for $600,000. That same year, he resigned from the House of Representatives and bought a farm near Oxford, Mississppi where he now lives with his wife and two children.
Since then, Grisham has gone on to be recognized as one of the world's bestselling novelist...