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John grisham essay

hn Grisham Junior was born on February 8th,1955 in Jonesboro Arkansas to a cotton picker/Contstruction worker

and homemaker.He was the second oldest in his family and they had moved around 5 different times while John was

young because of his fathers line of work.The last place that they had moved to was Southhaven Mississippi in

1967.In each town that they had moved to the first thing John would do is go get a library card form the local library, as

he was an avid reader and enjoyed works by John steinback.Reading steinbacks novels had made john think about the

idea of becomming a writer as he got older.But as a boy his dream was to play baseball.Although his parents lacked

formal education, his mother encouraged him to read and insisted that he prepare himself for college. Grisham had

gone to Northwest Mississippi Junoir college in a close town called Senatobia, and managed to play one year of ball

before transferring to Delta State.When arriving at D...

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