John Grisham

The Most Commendable Person
The most commendable person in the world today is John Grisham. He is an author whose name has become synonymous with modern legal thrillers for eighteen years.
Grisham’s original passion was baseball from age five when he first played the game. He became a good enough player to play at Mississippi State University. He graduated from MSU with a degree in accounting and later went to law school and became an attorney. He practiced law for ten years and was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983 where he served until 1990. It was during his early years as an attorney that he heard testimony in a rape trial that gave him the idea ...