How Did John Grisham Write A Time To Kill
A time to kill
The author
John Grisham was born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. As a child he dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he began to study accountancy1 at Mississippi State University. After graduating at the University in Mississippi School of Law in 1981, he went on to practise law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal law and civil law. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990. Now he lives with his family in Virginia, Mississippi.
Since first publishing "A Time to Kill" in 1989, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, …show more content…
He was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her rapists. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before continuing to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1988. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June …show more content…
A young black girl named Tonya is on her way back home from the grocery store when she is followed by two drunken white men in a car. They aggressively grab her and rape her. Then they drop the girl from a bridge where she is left for dead in a creek3. But a group of fishermen find her and her father Carl Lee Hailey takes her to the hospital just in time. The two criminals are caught by the cops and are being prosecuted for rape. On the way to their hearing right outside the courtroom, Tonya's father Carl Lee Hailey shoots and kills the two young men. He injures a policeman too. Carl Lee is now prosecuted for manslaughter4, and is facing the death penalty. He hires Jake Brigance as his lawyer.
The brothers of the two white victims become members of the Ku Klux Klan. They want to kill Jake so that he can't defend Carl Lee. Jake avoids the multiple assassinations that are aimed at5 him, his family and his friends. The KKK even burns his house because they think he is a traitor6 to the white race. Jake is so worried for his family's safety that he gets them out of the town and away from
The author
John Grisham was born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. As a child he dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he began to study accountancy1 at Mississippi State University. After graduating at the University in Mississippi School of Law in 1981, he went on to practise law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal law and civil law. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990. Now he lives with his family in Virginia, Mississippi.
Since first publishing "A Time to Kill" in 1989, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, …show more content…
He was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her rapists. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before continuing to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1988. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June …show more content…
A young black girl named Tonya is on her way back home from the grocery store when she is followed by two drunken white men in a car. They aggressively grab her and rape her. Then they drop the girl from a bridge where she is left for dead in a creek3. But a group of fishermen find her and her father Carl Lee Hailey takes her to the hospital just in time. The two criminals are caught by the cops and are being prosecuted for rape. On the way to their hearing right outside the courtroom, Tonya's father Carl Lee Hailey shoots and kills the two young men. He injures a policeman too. Carl Lee is now prosecuted for manslaughter4, and is facing the death penalty. He hires Jake Brigance as his lawyer.
The brothers of the two white victims become members of the Ku Klux Klan. They want to kill Jake so that he can't defend Carl Lee. Jake avoids the multiple assassinations that are aimed at5 him, his family and his friends. The KKK even burns his house because they think he is a traitor6 to the white race. Jake is so worried for his family's safety that he gets them out of the town and away from