19 Facts About Scott Turow

Scott Frederick Turow was born on April 12,1949 and is an American author and lawyer.

Scott Turow's novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County.

Scott Turow was born in Chicago, to a family of Belarusian Jewish descent.

Scott Turow received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to Stanford University's Creative Writing Center, which he attended from 1970 to 1972.

Scott Turow later became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, serving until 1975, when he entered Harvard Law School.

Scott Turow became interested in law while writing a novel about a rent strike, in part because studying law helped him cope with the emotional abuse he received from his father as a child.

In 1977, Scott Turow wrote One L, a book about his first year at law school.

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

All four books became bestsellers, and Scott Turow won multiple literary awards, most notably the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association.

In 1990, Scott Turow was featured on the June 11 cover of Time, which described him as "Bard of the Litigious Age".

In 1995, Canadian author Derek Lundy published a biography of Turow, entitled Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy.

Scott Turow was elected the President of the Authors Guild in 2010, which he was previously President of from 1997 to 1998.

Scott Turow has often responded that he is not against e-books, and has shared that he, in fact, does the majority of his own reading electronically.

From 1997 to 1998, Scott Turow was a member of the US Senate Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois, which recommends federal judicial appointments.

In 2011, Scott Turow met with Harvard Law School professor, Lawrence Lessig, to discuss political reform, including a possible Second Constitutional Convention of the United States.

Scott Turow was appointed to the commission considering the reform of the Illinois death penalty by former Governor George Ryan.

Additionally, Scott Turow was the first Chair of the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission, and he served as one of the 14 members on the Commission, which was appointed in March of 2000, by Illinois Governor George Ryan to consider reform of the capital punishment system.

Scott Turow's fiction is set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County.

Scott Turow was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Governor of Illinois in 2000 in the area of Communications.