His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in 1989. He left the law and politics to become a full-time author. While a lawyer in private practice in Southaven, Mississippi, Grisham served as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1983 until 1990. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi in 1981 after receiving a law degree from the University of Mississippi, specializing in criminal law. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Mississippi State University. John Grisham was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial - a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
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