Scott Turow

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Scott Turow
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Turow at the National Book Festival 2025
Born
Scott Frederick Turow

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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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OccupationNovelist, lawyer
EducationAmherst College (BA)
Stanford University
Harvard University (JD)
GenreFiction, legal thrillers
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Scott Frederick Turow[1] (born April 12, 1949) is an American writer and lawyer. Turow worked as a lawyer for a decade before writing full-time, and has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies.[2] Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County. Films have been based on several of his books.

Life and career

Scott Frederick Turow was born on April 12, 1949, in Chicago to a family of Belarusian Jewish descent.[3] His father was a medical doctor. Turow credits his mother, Rita, as having served as his "beacon" and having shaped him with her "love, support, and boundless faith in me."[4] In contrast, his father wanted him to become a doctor. After Presumed Innocent became successful, his father told him, "I still think you could have gone to medical school."[5] Turow was first raised in the neighborhood of West Rogers Park on Chicago's North Side[6] before moving with his family to the suburb of Winnetka at age 13.[7] He attended New Trier High School in Winnetka and graduated from Amherst College in 1970 as a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society.[8] He received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to Stanford University's Creative Writing Center, which he attended from 1970 to 1972.[9]

In 1977, Turow wrote One L, a book about his first year at law school.[5] He became a novelist and wrote the legal thrillers Presumed Innocent (1987), The Burden of Proof (1990), Pleading Guilty (1993), and Personal Injuries.

In 1990, Turow was featured on the June 11 cover of Time, which described him as "the Bard of the Litigious Age".[10] In 1995, Canadian author Derek Lundy published a biography of Turow, entitled Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy (ECW Press, 1995).

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Turow in 2008

Turow was elected the President of the Authors Guild in 2010.[11] As the President of the Authors Guild, he has been criticized for his copyright maximalist and anti-ebook stance.[12] Turow has often responded that he is not against e-books, and has shared that he does the majority of his own reading electronically. According to Turow, he is interested in protecting writing as a livelihood.[13]

From 1997 to 1998, Turow was a member of the U.S. Senate Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois, which recommends federal judicial appointments. In 2011, Turow met with Harvard Law School professor, Lawrence Lessig, to discuss political reform, including a possible Second Constitutional Convention of the United States. According to one source, Turow saw risks with having such a convention, but he believed that it may be the "only alternative", given his stance that campaign money can undermine the one man, one vote principle of democracy.[14]

Works

Novels

As editor

Non-fiction

Reception

His non-fiction work Ultimate Punishment also received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights 2003 Book award given annually to a novelist who "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity."[16]

Adaptations

Awards

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.[17] The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame gave Turow the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement on October 5, 2023, as part of Chicago Public Library's 150th anniversary celebration.[18]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Scott Frederick Turow". Cookcountyclerk.com. December 4, 1949. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  2. ^ Scott Turow Bio
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.MacDonald, Andrew F.; Gina Macdonald (2005). Scott Turow: A Critical Companion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313331152. Retrieved April 9, 2013 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Scott Turow to be awarded Literary Hall of Fame's Fuller Prize". Chicago Tribune. September 26, 2023. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lyall, Sarah (January 23, 2025). "Why Scott Turow Brought Back His Most Famous Hero: He 'Changed My Life'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bourne, Michael (December 4, 2013). "The Lasting Influence of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Charney, Noah (October 23, 2013). "Scott Turow: How I Write". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity: Notable Alumni". Retrieved August 25, 2017.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Donald G. (September 24, 2023). "A Conversation with Fuller Award Recipient Scott Turow". Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Burden of Success". Time. Vol. 135, no. 24. Time Inc. June 11, 1990. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rich, Motoko (April 28, 2010). "Scott Turow Elected President of the Authors Guild". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Masnick, Mike (April 8, 2013). "Authors Guild's Scott Turow: The Supreme Court, Google, Ebooks, Libraries & Amazon Are All Destroying Authors". Techdirt. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  13. ^ CBS This Morning, 2013-10-16.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.James Warren of The Chicago News Cooperative (December 10, 2011). "Let's Do Something About Privilege, Donors, Corporations and the Constitution". The New York Times. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hard Listening". The Rock Bottom Remainders.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RFKcenter.org". Archived from the original on June 19, 2015.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Laureates by Year – The Lincoln Academy of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2016.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fuller Award for Scott Turow". Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 28, 2023.

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