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Turow was born in Chicago, attended New Trier High School, and graduated from Amherst College in 1970, as a Brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society.
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Turow also was lead counsel in Operation Greylord, the federal prosecution of Illinois judicial corruption cases.
) In 1990, Turow was featured on the June 11 cover of Time, which described him as " Bard of the Litigious Age ".
Turow was elected the president of the Authors Guild in 2010 and was previously president from 1997 to 1998.
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.
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Scott F. Turow ( born April 12, 1949 ) is an American author and a practicing lawyer.
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) degree in 1978, Turow became an Assistant U. S. Attorney in Chicago, serving in that position until 1986.
Turow is a partner of the Chicago law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
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Scott Turow later became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, serving until 1975, when he entered Harvard Law School.
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* A reading from The Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow
Quite a number of U. S. lawyers have given up their jobs and started writing novels full-time, among them Scott Turow, who began his career with the publication of Presumed Innocent ( 1987 ) ( the phrase in the title having been taken from the age-old legal principle that any defendant must be considered as not guilty until s / he is finally convicted ).
The FSG brand became so renown that author Scott Turow turned down a $ 350, 000 advance for his first novel, " Presumed Innocent ," from a rival publisher so that he could work with Straus, who offered him $ 200, 000.
The book became a bestseller after an endorsement from author and family friend Scott Turow on The Today Show, and as of March 2009 had sold nearly 2. 5 million copies in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Other members include Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Roy Blount, Jr., Matt Groening, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Sam Barry, and Greg Iles.
Scott Turow wrote a memoir of his experience as a first-year law student at Harvard, One L.
Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies.
In 1977, Turow wrote One L, a book about his first year at law school.
After leaving the U. S. Attorney's office, Turow became a novelist, writing legal thrillers such as The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries, which Time magazine named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999.
All four became bestsellers, and Turow won multiple literary awards, most notably the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers.
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.
Turow works pro bono in most of his cases, including a 1995 case where he won the release of Alejandro Hernandez, who had spent 11 years on death row for a murder he did not commit.
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On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
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I was born angry.
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Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.
`` And besides, Thorstein Veblen was one of the Chicago professors ''.
Even after the incident between Bang-Jensen and Shann in the Delegates' Lounge and this was not the way the Chicago Tribune presented it ''.
The other was by Chesly Manley in the Chicago Daily Tribune.
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In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.
Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.
In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.
He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.
Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.
But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.
The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.
But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins era.
Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.
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The franchise has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago.
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