Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1955, he was the son of a construction-worker father and a mother who was a homemaker for the family. His father traveled extensively in his job, and the Grisham family moved many times. Each time the family took up residence in a new town, Grisham would immediately go to the public library to get a library card. "I was never a bookworm," he maintained in an interview for
Bookreporter.com. "I remember reading Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys,
Emil and the Detectives, Chip Hilton, and lots of Mark Twain and Dickens." Another constant for Grisham was his love of baseball, something he has taken with him into adulthood. One way he and his brothers would gauge the quality of each new hometown was by inspecting its little league ballpark. In 1967 the family moved to a permanent home in Southaven, Mississippi. There, Grisham enjoyed greater success in high school athletics than he did in English composition, a subject in which he earned a D grade. Although he had determined to become a professional baseball player, it seemed to others that Grisham's dreams were larger than his reach.
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