Getty Images John Grisham and his wife Renee in 2004. And he gets recruited into a secret law firm in Memphis that, surprise, surprise, is doing shady business with shady people, and Mitch finds himself caught between the mob and the FBI. He isn't a criminal defense attorney, or a white collar prosecutor, or anything exciting like that. The book is about a young hotshot lawyer named Mitch McDeere. Not until after he wrote his follow up, The Firm, which was an immediate success. His first book, A Time To Kill, didn't do so well - at first, at least. ![]() He'd start his days early and write in the mornings. The Firm was first published when Grisham was juggling working as a lawyer and being a member of the state legislature in Mississippi. When I asked him why, after all this time, is he revisiting The Firm, he simply said: "Well, we're always trying to angle a way to sell more books." It's a sequel to 1991's The Firm, which was the book that turned Grisham into a writing star. He's now out with his latest, The Exchange. ![]() People often ask him about his stance on books being pulled from schools and library shelves (he said it is "ridiculous" but doesn't keep a close eye on the news). ![]() He's part of a big lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company OpenAI for copyright infringement (he said he's not allowed to comment on it). He's been in the game for more than three decades now.Īnd in this tenured position in the world of books, he's adjacent to the existential crises facing books today. He's published 49 books, and has sold more than 400 million copies, according to his publicist. "One smart decision I made way back then was to hurry up and write," he said in an interview with NPR.
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