Scott Turow

Bestselling author Scott Turow is the writer of 11 fiction books which have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. His works of fiction include The Burden of Proof and Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and he has also written three nonfiction books including One L – about his experience studying law. Several of his books have been adapted into television and film projects. Turow has also contributed to various publications including Washington Post, The New Yorker, New York Times and The Atlantic. Time magazine described Turow as the Bard of the Litigious Age, and he appeared on the cover of the June 11 issue in 1990.

Born in Chicago, Turow studied at Standford University’s Creative Writing Center from 1970 to 1972, and he served as Jones Lecturer at Stanford until 1975 before entering Harvard Law School and writing his first book One L about his first year studying law. In 1978, he became Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago, prosecuting several high-profile corruption cases included state Attorney General William Scott’s tax fraud case.

Turow left the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1986 to pursue his dream of becoming a novelist, and began to write legal thrillers The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent and Pleading Guilty. Personal Injuries was named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999 by Time magazine, and Turow won the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers’ Association along with numerous other literary awards. He was elected president of the Authors Guild in 2010.