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John Grisham is a successful American novelist. He is a former lawyer and many of his works consist of legal drama. Between 1983 and 1990 he was a Democrat legislator in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
His first book, A Time to Kill, told the story of a rape victim's father killing his daughter's attackers, and the ensuing courtroom drama. He has had more than 20 books published, and several of these have been made into movies. He was the best-selling author of the 1990s.
Grisham is an active Baptist and a critic of capital punishment, two themes which have appeared in his work.