Scott Turow
Scott Turow
Scott Frederick Turowis an American author and lawyer. Turow has written nine fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Films have been based on several of his books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 April 1949
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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It turned out people were intensely curious about what actually goes on in courtrooms, and that Americans were deeply interested in law.
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Criminal law in particular does indeed present human beings in extremis. You're always dealing with definitions of evil.
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Brian Dugan's crimes -- and the murder of Jeanine was not the only one -- are horrific. But I hope that whoever ultimately decides Brian Dugan's fate bears in mind that he also had the moral courage to accept responsibility for a crime he alone committed, even though he knew that the blame had fallen elsewhere. In so doing he set in motion the chain of events that ultimately allowed two innocent men who had been sentenced to death to be restored to freedom. Dugan's evil deeds are extraordinary and repugnant, but his courage also was extraordinary.
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Even killers recognize that some people are sort of programmed to do mayhem.
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'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.
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Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.'
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Americans became interested in what was going on in courtrooms because so much was being decided there.
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Americans stopped believing in the melting pot and in universal American values.
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All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.
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Accessibility! This was a battle for my soul.
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It's all words, that's all the law is,
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
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I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer.
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It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.