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- <text id=91TT0699>
- <title>
- Apr. 01, 1991: Law Scribe
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 01, 1991 Law And Disorder
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 81
- Law Scribe
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- <p>By Sophfronia Scott/Reported by Andrea Sachs
- </p>
- <p> So how many times will author John Grisham be compared to
- Scott Turow before he gets a name of his own? Maybe not too
- many, now that his second novel, The Firm, about a hot young
- lawyer ensnared by a law firm with Mafia ties, is zooming up
- the best-seller lists. The Mississippi native spent 10 years
- practicing law before hunkering down to write full time. "It
- was fairly easy to close the office down and run all the
- clients away," says Grisham, 36. The switch freed him to cash
- in on the public's hunger for law-related fare. Paramount paid
- Grisham $600,000 for the book's movie rights even before he had
- a publishing deal.
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- </body></article>
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