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Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of fourteen works of fiction,
including Presumed Innocent and most recently, Presumed Guilty, all New York Times
bestsellers. Mr. Turow has also published two nonfiction books, including One L, about
his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than thirty million copies worldwide. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
His works have been the basis for film and television projects. Most recently, in the summer of 2024, Apple TV+ released an eight-part limited series based on Presumed Innocent, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which became Apple’s highest-rated drama series, leading Apple to order a second season. Other film projects based on Mr. Turow’s work are also in development, including Presumed Guilty which has been optioned by Warner Bros for David E. Kelley and J.J. Abrams (Bad Robot).
In 1986, Mr. Turow became a partner in the Chicago office of Dentons LLC, an international law firm, concentrating on white collar criminal defense, while also devoting a substantial part of his time to pro bono matters. He retired from commercial practice in 2020. From 1978 until 1986, Mr. Turow worked as Assistant United Sates Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois prosecuting several high-profile public corruption cases. He has also served on a number of public bodies, including the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment, which proposed reforms to Illinois’ death penalty system, and he was the first Chair of Illinois’ Executive Ethics Commission, created in 2004 to regulate executive branch employees in Illinois. Mr. Turow is a former President of the Authors Guild, the nation’s largest membership organization of professional writers, an Emeritus Trustee of Amherst College, and a former Trustee of the Poetry Foundation.
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