Scott turow biography

He had always been a bright child. He was mostly found reading fiction and other works of literature. While serving as an assistant US attorney in Chicago —86 , he wrote his first novel, Presumed Innocent ; film Attorney in Chicago , serving in that position until There, he prosecuted several high-profile corruption cases, including the tax fraud case of state Attorney General, William Scott.

Turow was also lead counsel in Operation Greylord , the federal prosecution of judicial corruption cases in Illinois.

Scott turow biography

After leaving the U. The celebrated author-attorney has come a long way from his early days of ambivalence about writing as a career. Within the confines of legalese, Turow felt the most free, simultaneously discovering his passion and his literary voice. Scott, who was convicted of tax fraud. Drawing from his own experience, Turow burst onto the literary scene in with Presumed Innocent, a story about the murder of a prosecutor.

The novel, later turned into a major film, was the first of six best-selling legal thrillers that have been translated into 25 languages, including Hebrew. All his books have been published in hardcover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with Warner Books responsible for paperbacks—except forUltimate Punishment published by Picador. The author believes that his strong sense of ethics is a product of the Jewish humanitarian tradition, handed down by his politically conscious grandfather.

In one of these matters, Alejandro Hernandez, co-defendant of Rolando Cruz, was exonerated after 11 years in prison. He was born on April 12, in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated with high honors from Amherst College in From to , he taught Creative Writing at Stanford, as E. Jones Lecturer.