![]() ![]() He received a host of rejections from publishers, but the novel was eventually acquired by Wynwood Press, with 5,000 copies printed in 1988. Grisham wrote the book in three years, getting up at 5am to work on it before he started his day job. ![]() The novel was written after Grisham – then a lawyer who had been elected to the state House of Representatives – overheard the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim he was inspired to explore what would have happened if her father had murdered her attackers. Clanton was also the setting for A Time to Kill, in which Brigance defended Carl Lee Hailey, on trial for murder after gunning down his daughter's white rapists. ![]()
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