Scott Turow
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Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer.
Turow has published 11 novels and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies.
Multiple of his books have been based on films.
Life and career
Turow was born in Chicago to a family of Russian Jewish descent. He attended New Trier High School and graduated from Amherst College in 1970 as a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society. He was awarded the Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to Stanford University's Creative Writing Center, which he attended from 1970 to 1972.
Turow served as a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University until 1975, when he first enrolled Harvard Law School. Turow wrote One L, a book about his first year at law school, in 1977. After receiving his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, he continued to be a Juris Doctor (J.D.) Turow was a degree lauded in 1978 until 1986, when he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago. There, he prosecuted several high-profile corruption cases, including the tax fraud lawsuit involving state Attorney General William Scott. In Operation Greylord, the federal prosecution of criminal misconduct cases in Illinois, Turow served as lead counsel.
Turow began writing the legal thrillers Presumed Innocent (1987), The Burden of Proof (1990), and Personal Injuries, which Time magazine named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999, after leaving the US Attorney's Office. All four books became best-selling books, and Turow has received several literary prizes, most notably the Silver Dagger Award from the British Crime Writers' Association.
Turow appeared on Time's June 11 front page, describing him as "Bard of the Litigious Age" in 1990. Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy, a Canadian writer published a biography of Turow in 1995 (ECW Press, 1995). A British publisher bracketed Turow's career with Margaret Atwood and John Irving's work, which was republished in the collection Bloomsbury Modern Library in the 1990s.
Turow was elected President of the Authors Guild in 2010, which was previously President of from 1997 to 1998. He has been chastised for his copyright maximalist and anti-ebook positions as President of the Authors Guild. Turow has stated consistently that he does not oppose E-books, but that, in fact, he does the bulk of his own reading electronically. According to Turow, he is interested in writing as a profession.
Turow served on the United States Senate Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois, which advocates for federal judicial appointments from 1997 to 1998. Turow talked to Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig in 2011 to discuss political reform, as well as the possibility of a Second Constitutional Convention of the United States. Turow felt the dangers of such a convention, but he said it could be the "only alternative" given that campaign funds could undermine the one-man, one vote rule of democracy, according to one source.
Turow is a former partner of Dentons' international law firm Dentons who is a client of one of its constituents, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, and the Chicago law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The bulk of Turow's caseload work is pro bono, including a 1995 lawsuit in which he saved Alejandro Hernandez, a man who spent 11 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Former Governor George Ryan was also appointed to the commission that was considering the reform of the Illinois death penalty. In addition,, Turow was the first Chair of the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission, and he served as one of the Commission's 14 members, which was appointed in March of 2000 by Illinois Governor George Ryan to investigate the capital punishment system's reform. Turow served as a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board from 2000-2002.