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Scott Turow
American author and lawyer (born )
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Scott Frederick Turow[1] (born April 12, ) is an American author and lawyer.
Scott turow author biography
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
Turow was born in Chicago, to a family of Belarusian Jewish descent.[3] His father was an M.D., but it was his mother Rita whom he credits as serving as his "beacon" and shaping him with her "love, support, and boundless faith in me."[4] He attended New Trier High School and graduated from Amherst College in , as a brother of the Alpha Delta Phi Literary Society.[5] He received an Edith