Who is John Grisham?
John Grisham is rounding the bases of the family ballfield in his wife’s white Saab 900. At second, he mentions that he’s planning to put down fake turf and maybe buy the neighboring land to expand the field. As he rolls into third, he motions toward the covered batting tunnel with its dual-arm pitching machine. Then he brakes on his way toward home plate, sketching blueprints in the air of an old-fashioned grandstand that will soon rise behind the backstop fence. ”The more I do,” he says, ”the more I want to do.” Grisham lives by those words. In the summer of ’91, when the media started beating a path to his 67-acre farm outside Oxford, Miss., Grisham had just bush-hogged a grazing pasture into a makeshift ballfield where he could coach his son’s Little League team. Back then, his novel The Firm had been on best- seller lists only three months. In those days, Grisham was just an upstart lawyer from Faulkner country who had scribbled fiction during court recesses and got what looke
