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Fact File
| Name:
Scott Turow
Current Home:
Chicago, Illinois
Date of Birth:
April 12, 1949
Place of Birth:
Chicago, Illinois
| | Education:
B.A. in English, Amherst College, 1970; M.A., Stanford University, 1974; J.D., Harvard University, 1978
Awards:
Silver Dagger of British Crime Writers Association for Presumed Innocent, 1987
Scott Turow's official web site
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Reading Recommendations
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The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Author:
James Joyce, Thomas F. Staley (Editor).]()
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| | The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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James Joyce, Thomas F. Staley (Editor)
Turow says that this Joyce classic is the novel that most influenced his life, "because it first showed me that power of fiction to uplift and articulate what I took as wild and private dreams." Other books on Turow's list of favorites include The Count of Monte Cristo "for its spectacular plot," and Tell Me a Riddle "for its inventiveness and power."
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Alexandre Dumas
Tell Me a Riddle
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Tillie Olsen
More from our interview
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The Best Book to Read First
| An Inside Look at Law School
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Presumed Innocent, Author:
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| | Presumed Innocent
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Scott Turow
Turow dished to Publishers Weekly about his hit novel, saying: "Absolutely everybody in the novel is guilty of something. That's a truth of life that I learned as a prosecutor. We all do things we wish we hadn't done and that we're not necessarily proud of."
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, Author:
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| | One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
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Scott Turow
Turow is author of another popular rollercoaster ride filled with drama and peril -- but it's his true-life account of being a first-year Harvard law student. A lot has changed for since Turow published this book in 1977; a new edition features an afterword
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