John grisham was born in 19 55, and had a twisty torney career before becoming a full time writer after this book was published in 19 91. He graduated from the university of mississippi school of law in 19 81, practised law for about a decade, and served in the mississippi house of representatives at round the same time,. from 19 83 to 19 90. His last couple terms just like, doing a lot of writing. One of the reasons he had time to write was that he backed the wrong horse for speaker of the missingmissippi house in 19 87. The leader who did get elected didn't give him good committee assignments so he spent his last