However, his mother had different aspirations for her son and began grooming him for college, although she herself had never received a formal education. They settled down again in Southaven, Mississippi and that is where the young John Grisham became determined to be a baseball player for his profession. However, the family began to move around to different areas, still south of the Mason-Dixon Line, while Grisham was in his youth. His father happened to be a cotton farmer at the time. He arrived in the world on February 8, 1955, when cotton was still a major product of the south. Although the land has been a place of much turmoil, some positive things have arisen for it, as it was in Jonesboro, Arkansas that John Grisham was born. The American south has long been a point of interest to historians as it was the place where slavery once boomed and racisim ran rampant.
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