Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

It is no exaggeration to say that my guest today is one of the most widely read authors

in the history of human civilization.

Is that dramatic enough for you?

Well it's true, his name is John Grisham and he has sold 350 million copies of his books

over the last three decades or so.

It started with a time to kill, the firm, the pelican brief, the client, the chamber,

the rainmaker, it goes on and on and on.

His latest is called Sparring Partners.

It's actually a novella.

Collection of three stories, the first of which stars Jake Braganz.

If that name sounds familiar, he of course is the protagonist and our hero in a time to

kill, played by Matthew McConaughey in that hit movie as well.

You know John Grisham's story by now, he was a small town Mississippi lawyer and started

writing about things he was seeing in the courtroom.

The first was a time to kill, they printed 5,000 copies of it, nobody bought it by his own

admission except him.

He bought a thousand copies.

So here we talk about that just to get some sales on the board.

And it was the firm, the second book that really changed everything.

Before it even was published, it was shopped around Hollywood, the rights were purchased,

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