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The author of the book “bleachers”, John Grisham grew up in many locations. He went to four different colleges and graduated with his degree in accounting. He had another career in sight but realized it wasn’t meant for him so he changed directions and went into story writing. His first novel was’ “A Time to Kill” which was published in June 1989. It took four years before he completed the novel. He sold over a quarter million copies of his book in the year 2012. In his early life, he had five siblings all from Jonesboro, Arkansas. They later moved to Southaven, Mississippi. As a teen he worked at a nursery. Before he came 17 years old he worked at a plumbing contractor but hated it. He turned

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