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- PEOPLE, Page 81Law Scribe
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- By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Andrea Sachs
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- 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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