A Time to Kill is a 1989 legal suspense thriller by John Grisham; it was Grisham’s first novel. The novel was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press (located in New York) eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing. After The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and The Client became bestsellers, interest in A Time to Kill grew; the book was republished by Doubleday in hardcover and, later, by Dell Publishing in paperback, and it became a bestseller. This made Grisham extremely popular among readers.
In 1996 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name starring Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson. In 2011 it was further adapted into a stage play of the same name by Rupert Holmes. The stage production opened at the Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) in May 2011 and opened on Broadway in October 2013.
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