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BOOK REPORT: JOHN GRISHAM The Firm (Just check on how FIRM you are) Author Information John Grisham, who has triumphantly won the title of an internationally acknowledged best-selling novelist, was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Moving to Southaven, Mississippi in 1967, he succeeded first with an undergraduate degree in Accounting at Mississippi State University a decade later and then with a Law degree at a law school of the University of Mississippi in 1981 – the same year he married Renée Jones. At a privately established law practice he took up both civil and criminal cases. In 1983 he was elected to the State House of Representatives. Grisham’s opening novel A Time to Kill was published in 1989, but failed to fall in with the mainstream, unlike The Firm, which followed in a year. The former appeared on screen in the USA as a story of a Mississippi man (Samuel L. Jackson), who was accused of killing the racists who roughed up his 10-year old daughter. Matthew McConaughey featured as a defense attorney and Sandra Bullock appearing as a law student who pulls his heartstrings were the main standouts of the production. However, the film-version of The Firm was a sensation blockbuster with