"Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil."
Having served as both prosecutor and defense attorney--much of his defense work is now done pro bono--Turow uses his insider's knowledge of the American legal system to explore the murky terrain of urban justice in highly plotted, bestselling suspen se novels that include Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of Our Fathers, Personal Injuries, and 2002's Reversible Errors, which deals with the death penalty. "No one on the contemporary scene writes better mystery-suspense novels than Chicago attorney Scott Turow," noted Bill Blum in the Los Angeles Times Book Review. "In a genre overcrowded with transparent plots and one-dimensional super-sleu ths, Turow's first novel, Presumed Innocent, was a work of serious fiction as well as a gripping tale of murder and courtroom drama." New York Times Magazine correspondent Jeff Shear praised Turow for the "brash, backroom sensibility that informs his work as a novelist."
It is a rare writer indeed who collects millions of dollars from a first novel. Even more rare is the author who crafts a novel while holding a full-time, high-profile job.
This is a free page. This page contains 195 words. This
biography contains 4,499 words (approx. 15 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Biography with our Scott Turow Access Pass.
