Biography
John Grisham is a king of legal thrillers, which is professionally constructed in the field of law, which gives works with reliability and special charm. According to his best-selling "Firm", "It's time to kill", "Customer" was removed by Hollywood films, adding more drama in the history of heroes: unfairly convicted, dying, defenseless and, on the contrary, ready to fight the last drop of blood.Childhood and youth
John Ray Grishem Jr. was born on February 8, 1955 in the American city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, in the family of Vanda (nee Skidmor) and John Ray Grisham. Mother - housewife, father was engaged in building and growing cotton. The boy is the second of five children. When he turned 4 years old, the family moved to South Heven, Minnesota.
In childhood, Grisham wanted to be a baseball player. Dreams were embodied in the vitality of the "Painted House" (2001) about the 7-year-old Farmer boy, who wanted to devote himself to sports. In the book "Joe from Calico" (2012) describes a fact from the biography of the writer, because of which, in 18 years, Grisham refused baseball: the feeding team of the opponent inflicted a young man with a heavy injury. From 8 years, John professed Christianity. In his student years, he even went to Brazil to spread his creed.
John began to work early - from 14 years old watered bushes in kindergarten, revenge the fences, later Doros before the plumbing. At the age of 17, his father arranged him in the road brigade by the asphalt labeled, where an accident was happened to a young man who made him think seriously about college. Employees of the two brigades arranged a fight, reached shooting. Frightened, Grisch hid in the toilet and sat there until the police detained criminals.
The American realized that he did not want to make life in search of work, and entered the North-West College of Mississippi, then to the State University of Cleveland, Ohio. John changed 3 institutions before he received a higher education. In 1977, he released from the State University of Mississippi Bakalavrom in the field of accounting.
Grisham decided to deepen the knowledge gained and entered the school law at the University of Mississippi on a tax lawyer. Jurisprudence turned out to be more interesting to the economy, and in 1981, a young man received a doctoral degree in civil law.
Books
For 10 years, Grisch worked as a lawyer, protecting the interests of citizens in criminal and concerning harm to health affairs. Successful legal career helped the American in 1983 to avoid in the Chamber of Representatives of Mississippi. Annual salary was $ 8 thousand.
In 1984, in the Hall of Court of Clinton, Mississippi, Grisham heard the testimony of victims of rape and beating: 12-year-old Marci Scott and her 16-year-old Sisters Julie. The tragic story was interested in a lawyer, and he thought that it would be if the Father of the Girls his own chlorinically sorted out with offenders. So the idea of the first legal thriller "time to kill" was born.
When implementing the idea of life, John was inspired by the work of Harper Lee "kill the casting", so the key idea of the novel is a racial clash: the father of the raped girl, African American, kills criminals - white guys. The members of the Ku-Kloux clan open the hunt for Jake Brygens, a lawyer who gets up to protect blacks. The debut of the work it turned out to find a publisher. Grisham received 28 failures, while in June 1989, Wynwood Press publishing house did not agree to print 5 thousand copies.
Immediately after writing "It's time to kill", the American took over the company "Firm" (1991) about a lawyer who collects a compromising on colleagues laundering Mafia money. It turned out to be a triumph: the work lasted in the list of the bestsellers "The New York Times" 47 weeks, for 2 years sold 1.5 million copies. The success of the novel convinced Grisham to refuse judicial practice. Only once, in 1996, he defended the interests of the family of the railwayman, who was killed at work.
In subsequent years, John continued to write legal thrillers: "Client" (1993), "Camera" (1994), "Verdict" (1996), "partner" (1997), "Lawyer" (1998). A series of similar works was interrupted by the Roman "Painted House", which described the author's childhood in Arkansas, filled with baseball, cotton harvest and constant fight against poverty.
Sports themes in Grisha's works can be traced in the novels "Tribunes" (2003), "Last Chance" (2007), "Joe from Calico". And "Gray Mountain" (2014) is the first work of the American, in which the main hero of the lawyer is a woman.
In addition to individual novels, in the bibliography of John there are collections. So, in 2010 the light saw the book "Crime without punishment. Theodore Bun is a little lawyer "about the boy who is raised by lawyers. Involuntarily, he becomes a witness to the scene, which can radically change the course of the trial. People refuse to perceive the words of an inexperienced teenager, implanting the photo of his authorship, but Theodore believes that it is obliged to report the world to the truth, otherwise the crime will remain without punishment.
Readers warmly accepted a new character, and Grisham wrote a second story about a small lawyer under the "abduction" heading (2011), where Theodore investigates the loss of a school girlfriend. In the story "Accused" (2012), a teenager becomes a suspect in a crime that did not commit. He needs to justify himself.
In the story "Activist" (2013), the Boon will acquire legally savvy, inquisitive friends. Together they become on the path of corrupt politicians. But the "rich" intend to carry out the desired, even if for this will have to get rid of adolescents with brutal ways.
After a long break, in 2016, I left the sixth and at the moment the last novel in the cycle "Theodore Bun: Scandal". In it, the young detective collided with the falsification of the exam results. Stories about theodore fell to the young readers to taste: Shiya, the daughter of Grisha, the teacher, gave reading books to schoolchildren, and many of them decided to associate life with jurisprudence.
Ideas for new works in the author's head do not dry out. In 2017, John wrote an "asphara" - a novel about three teenagers who became hostages of the Foundation of the Private Law School Foundation. The law on the side of the fraudsters, so students are dares to not entirely legal methods. Other characters, also young lawyers, turn out to be the focus of the most fresh novel of the American "Payback" (2018).
Films
John Grisha's books are actively shielded by Hollywood's producers, and the first film released - "Firm" (1993) on the Bestseller of the same name. The main role was executed by Tom Cruise. The attention of the famous actor to the work of the American not only convinced the rest of the Cinemas to take on the creation of video believers of Grisha's works, but also attracted interest in reading novels.
In the same 1993, "Case of Pelicans" with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washinton appeared, a year later, Susan Sarandon and Tommy Li Jones starred in the film enclosure.
Debut novel, "It's time to kill," received a film period 7 years after writing - in 1996. In the role of a lucky father, who was avenged for the injury of his daughter, Samuel L. Jackson appeared, and Matthew McConaja played a lawyer. Sandra Bullock, Kevin Sserland, Kiefer and Donald Sutherland also entered the cast. The adaptation of the script brought $ 6 million Grisham.
For the screening of "Golden Rain" (1995), the novel on the persecution of an insurance company with a young lawyer, Francis Ford Coppola took. The film was called "benefactor" (1997), the main roles were performed by Danny de Vito and Matt Damon. In 2017, CBS channel announced the shooting of the series on this work. John Grisham acts as a screenwriter.
After the film with "Christmas with losers" (2004), the work of the American stopped wondering Hollywood. Grisham tried to stay in the Famfer and wrote the original scenario for the film "Mickey" about the 12-year-old talented baseball player. The picture, however, did not impress the audience: cash charges accounted for only $ 294 thousand at a budget of $ 6 million.
Personal life
John Grisha's personal life is no less successful than literary career. On May 8, 1981, the writer took Ren Jones in his wife. Two children were born in marriage: her daughter Shi and Son Tai. The boy inherited the Love Father to Sport, he plays a baseball for the University of Virginia.
The family owns several houses, including a cottage on the best US beach - in Destin, Florida. The house is located next to the possessions of Britney Spears and Cheryl Crow.
John Grisham now
In addition to writing books, Grisch, and is now a member of the Board of Directors of the Nevinost Project, within the framework of which campaigns are held for the release of unfairly convicted on the basis of DNA analyzes. In support of the project, a former lawyer noted that in practice there are analyzes with defects, and it is necessary to repeat.
The writer opposes the death penalty and considers the prison sentences provided for by the US Justice System too cruel. As an example, he led "difficult" adolescents who traded drugs to earn money for bread, and those who look at pornography. Grisham appealed to the fact that not all the audience of children's porn must be pedophiles. Such a point of view was criticized by society, and later the writer abandoned his words in the post on Facebook.
An American left baseball as a player, but continues to follow the sport. In 1996, he spent $ 3.8 million for the construction of a children's baseball school in Oxford, and also sponsors the Cavalier team from Koversville, Virginia.
Bibliography
- 1989 - "It's time to kill"
- 1991 - "Firm"
- 1993 - "Client"
- 1998 - "Lawyer"
- 2000 - "blackmail"
- 2001 - "Painted House"
- 2004 - "Last Jury"
- 2012 - "Racketyr"
- 2014 - "Gray Mountain"
- 2017 - "Camino Island"
- 2017 - "Scam"
- 2018 - "Payback"
Filmography
- 1993 - "Firm"
- 1993 - "Case of Pelicans"
- 1994 - "Client"
- 1996 - "Time to kill"
- 1996 - "Camera"
- 1997 - "benefactor"
- 2003 - "Painted House"
- 2003 - "Verdict for money"
- 2004 - "Mickey"
- 2004 - "Christmas with losers"