Scott Turow
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Scott Turow is an American author, as well as a practicing lawyer. He is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm. Turow wrote his first novel, ”Presumed Innocent”, while riding to work on a commuter train. It was his first best seller. Since then, Turow’s books have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold over 30 million copies. Several motion pictures and television series have been based on his books.r r Turow graduated with high honors from Amherst College in 1970, receiving a fellowship to Stanford University Creative Writing Center which he attended from 1970 to 1972. From 1972 to 1975 Turow taught creative writing at Stanford. In 1975, he entered Harvard Law School, graduating with honors in 1978. From 1978 to 1986, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, serving as lead prosecutor in several high-visibility federal trials investigating corruption in the Illinois judiciary. In 1995, in a major pro bono legal effort he won a reversal in the murder conviction of a man who had spent 11 years in prison, many of them on death row, for a crime another man confessed to.r r Today, he continues to write and is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm, where his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation and involves representation of individuals and companies in all phases of criminal matters. r r Turow has presented at the National Book Festival in Washington DC. The links to his webcasts below can be copied and pasted into your browser. r r *2001 National Book Festival Webcast (part 1) – http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3449r r *2001 National Book Festival Webcast (part 2) – http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3450 r r *2006 National Book Festival Webcast – http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3957 r r *2010 National Book Festival Webcast – http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5026
‘Identical | Body of Work | Personal Injuries | Reversible Errors | Ultimate Punishment
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel | Identical | Innocent (Presumed Innocent Book 2) | Limitations (Kindle County Book 7) | One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School | Ordinary Heroes: A Novel | Personal Injuries: A Novel (Kindle County Book 5) | Pleading Guilty (Kindle County Book 3) | Presumed Guilty (Presumed Innocent, 3) | Presumed Innocent | Reversible Errors: A Novel (Kindle County Book 6) | Suspect | Testimony (Kindle County Book 10) | The Burden of Proof (Kindle County Book 2) | The Last Trial (Kindle County Book 11) | The Laws of our Fathers: A Novel (Kindle County Book 4) | Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty