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31 August 2006
The Write Stuff - John
Grisham
"Writers don't need
love - all they require is money," said playwright John
Osbourne. But these authors seem to have plenty of
both.
John Grisham - £60
million
"I blew my chances because
I wasn't very good." John
Grisham, legal
eagle turned best selling author, isn't talking about either
law or writing here, but baseball, one of his favourite
sports.
Grisham's childhood dream
was to play pro ball, but he admits that he just didn't have
the talent.
Fortunately, what Grisham
lost on the diamond he turned into gold on the presses. He
started writing as a hobby, squeezed in before going to the
office and in courtroom recesses during his 10 year law
career. In 1984 Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of
a 12 year old rape victim, and was inspired to explore in a
novel what would have happened if the girl's father had
murdered her assailants. Three years later he finished A
Time To Kill, which was rejected by many publishers before
finally getting a 5,000 copy run.
John Grisham's next novel,
The Firm, spent 47 weeks on The New York Times best seller
list and became the best selling novel of 1991. The film
rights were sold to Paramount Pictures for
$600,000.
The subsequent triumphant
successes of The Pelican Brief and The Client made Grisham's
name synonymous with modern legal thriller.
John Grisham lives a quiet
life with his wife Renee and their two children. "I'm on
easy street now," he says. "I have the luxury of writing
basically five or six months out of the year. That's a lot
of downtime."
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