Scott Turow | |
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Born | Scott Frederick Turow April 12, 1949 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist, lawyer |
Education | Amherst College (BA) Stanford University Harvard University (JD) |
Genre | Fiction, legal thrillers |
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Scott Frederick Turow[1] (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. 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.