John Grisham is both a storyteller and a lawyer and is the best selling novelist in the world. He is said to be the most financially successful writer in history and currently holds the record of selling more than 250 million copies of his novels on a worldwide basis.

Before making a name for himself as a writer, John Grisham was a lawyer in Oxford, Mississippi. He majored in accounting at Mississippi State University and graduated from law school at Ole Miss in 1981.

Grisham then went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. He has also served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, after being elected in 1983.

The big break for John Grisham’s writing career came after submitting his second book manuscript to his publisher.

The writing style of John Grisham involves the master of plot, a great storyteller that can drive a clear point home. He is well known for his courtroom novels of tales of fast-paced lawyers, victims, authorities and wrongdoers. In his novels, law firms are consistently represented as pits of corruption and all-around evil. His book called “The Firm” is a top selling legal thriller.

John Grisham’s contributions to the world of popular culture in the late twentieth century are enormous. Not only is he largely responsible for the elevation of legal thrillers to a level of popularity never before seen in literary circles, but he has also transcended that genre as his books are eagerly anticipated by those in the movie industry, such as the Gingerbread Man.

Here are a few of the books written by John Grisham

• The Rainmaker
• The Associate
• The Last Juror
• Mickey
• The Appeal
• Mississippi Politics – The Struggle for Power
• The Innocent Man

John Grisham has shown a rare gift for creating suspense. But there’s no suspense anymore about what happens when a new Grisham novel hits the bookstores.