Grisham's birth story

. . .during the summer of my 16th year, I found a job with a plumbing contractor. I crawled under houses, into the cramped darkness, with a shovel, to somehow find the buried pipes, to dig until I found the problem, then crawl back out and report what I had found. I vowed to get a desk job. . . .

I'm not sure why the NY Times is running it, but John Grisham talks about how he became a writer here.

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