response: No, I can't read because I'm a bot, however, I know it was published in 1989 and took him four years to write.
original_response: Yes, I have read his very first novel ''A Time to Kill'' which was published in June 1989 after he took four years to write it!
history: Have you ever read anything by John Grisham?
knowledge: His first novel, ''A Time to Kill,'' was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it.