Scott Turow
Born | Scott Frederick Turow ( 1949-04-12) Apri ... |
Occupation | Novelist, lawyer |
Alma mater | Amherst College Stanford University Harv ... |
Genre | Fiction, legal thrillers |
In 1995, Canadian author Derek Lundy published a biography of Turow, entitled Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy (ECW Press, 1995). In the 1990s, a British publisher bracketed Turow’s work with that of Margaret Atwood and John Irving, republished in the series Bloomsbury Modern Library.
In 1977, Turow wrote One L, a book about his first year at law school. After earning his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree cum laude in 1978, Turow became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago, serving in that position until 1986.
After leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, Turow became a novelist and wrote the legal thrillers Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries, which Time magazine named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999.
Scott Turow was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2000 in the area of Communications.
Stanford University1970–1972Harvard Law SchoolAmherst CollegeNew Trier Township High School - WinnetkaScott Turow/Education
Chicago, ILScott Turow / Place of birth
Turow was born in Chicago and has lived in and around the city for most of his life. His birthplace is the blueprint for Kindle County, home to a fictional metropolis plagued by crime and foul weather where all but four of his books are set.
73 years (April 12, 1949)Scott Turow / Age
Adriane GlazierScott Turow / Spouse (m. 2016)
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The Kindle County legal thrillers are set in a fictional Illinois county that is based on Cook County (Chicago).
Filming took place on locations in Detroit, Windsor, Ontario, and New Jersey, and on soundstages at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York. Presumed Innocent premiered at the Fox Bruin Theater in Los Angeles, California on July 25, 1990, before being released in North America on July 27, 1990.
Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written 11 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies....Scott TurowGenreFiction, legal thrillersSignature5 more rows
One LFirst editionAuthorScott TurowGenreAutobiographyPublisherPutnamPublication date19778 more rows
Other fiction books that Scott Turow has written include The Laws of Our Fathers, Reversible Errors, Guilty as Charged, Limitations, Ordinary Heroes, Innocent, The Best American Mystery Stories and Identical. Non- fiction books include Ultimate Punishment. One L and hard listening.
John Grisham Books in Order – The Legal StoriesThe Firm (1991)The Pelican Brief (1992)The Client (1993)The Chamber (1994)The Rainmaker (1995)The Runaway Jury (1996)The Partner (1997)The Street Lawyer (1998)More items...•
See Article History. Scott Turow, (born April 12, 1949, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American lawyer and best-selling writer known for crime and suspense novels dealing with law and the legal profession. Turow received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1978 from Harvard University. While there he published a nonfiction work, ...
Turow’s subsequent works included The Laws of Our Fathers (1996), a legal thriller that focuses on the entangled lives of a judge and her peers who came of age in the 1960s, and Personal Injuries (1999), a story of deception and corruption.