Scott Turow
Scott Frederick Turow is an American writer 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. Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County.
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- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- Stanford UniversityHarvard Law SchoolAmherst CollegeNew Trier High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Heartland Prize🏆 Carl Sandburg Literary Award🏆 Order of Lincoln
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1949
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