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  NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Scott Turow
Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American novelist and author, as well as a practicing lawyer.
Turow was the president of the Authors Guild from 1997 to 1998 and continues to serve on its board.
Turow works pro bono in most of his cases, including a 1995 case where he won the release of Alejandro Hernandez, who had spent 11 years on death row for a murder he did not commit.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scott-Turow   (1216 words)

  
 Scott Turow's One L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turow's hint, and it is no more than a hint, is that Harvard Law School satisfies a shadow side, what he calls his "greedy little monster." Turow, driven to succeed, finds a fit at Harvard for this drive.
Turow, seeking success and accomplishment, recognizes that the psychological underpinning of his quest creates a problem in his becoming the kind of lawyer he wants to be.
Scott Turow's One L is a workable narrative of legal education and the difficulties, doubts, and promise of professional life that carries one through legal education rites of passage.
www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/orientation/legalmind/turowonel.html   (2124 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scott Turow: Generally speaking, the death penalty is a state matter, although there is a federal death penalty.
Scott Turow: After hanging in doubt for many years on this issue, I think the mistake we make is arguing about whether the death penalty ought to be applied in particular cases instead of focusing on the whole series of outcomes that our capital systems have produced.
Scott Turow: I have my own experiences but it is certainly the case that many people on death row are mentally impaired in some ways.
www.usatoday.com /community/chat/2002-11-07-turow.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Scott Turow: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scott Turow (born April 12, EHandler: no quick summary.
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scott_turow.htm   (972 words)

  
 COURT TV ONLINE - CHAT
Scott Turow: "Reversible Errors" is about four people -- the defense lawyer, the prosecutor, the detective and the sentencing judge -- who are involved in a death penalty case in which another prisoner confesses to the same crime for which the defendant is about to be executed.
Scott Turow: Yes, the Central Park case is very much like the case in "Reversible Errors," right down to the fact that in my book, as well, the defendant has confessed to the murder he now claims he didn't commit.
Scott Turow: I have to admit that I haven't followed the basis for the federal charges which were filed today.
www.courttv.com /talk/chat_transcripts/2002/1029turow.html   (1385 words)

  
 Ultimate Punishment - Scott Turow
Turow meets the worst of the worst murderers, describes some appalling crimes -- and some appalling miscarriages of justice --, and conveys some of the information gleaned from testimony from everyone from legal professionals to victims' families.
Turow considers the supposed deterrent effect of having a death penalty, noting that there is no convincing evidence suggesting a deterrent effect of any sort.
Turow does come away from the experience a changed man: a believer in the death penalty, he nevertheless loses hope in its just application in the real world (at least the real world as it looks in Illinois).
www.complete-review.com /reviews/legal/turows.htm   (1572 words)

  
 Scott Turow's Death Row Turnarounds
Turow, could have simply quit practicing law and settled into a comfortable suburban life on Chicago's North Shore, where he and his family live.
More recently, Turow served as a member of the death-penalty reform commission created by George Ryan, the conservative Republican governor of Illinois who came to believe that his state's capital-punishment system was badly flawed.
Turow has been both a prosecutor and defense lawyer, so his views on capital punishment are the result of agonizing over the subject from both sides of the bench.
www.cjcj.org /press/death_turnarounds.html   (1417 words)

  
 CNN.com - A practiced eye: Scott Turow's line to success - August 7, 2000
Scott Turow knew he wanted to be a writer from the time he was a child.
The compact, genial Turow said he had known he wanted to be a novelist since he was a child.
Turow said Hemingway's adage that "All of my life, I've looked at words as if I've seen them for the first time" were words he has lived by.
www.cnn.com /2000/books/news/08/07/leisure.turow.reut/index.html   (914 words)

  
 Press Release: The Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Turow's most stunning achievement...(The author) is equally at home wading through the hot violent world of gangbangers as he is with tense courtroom realism and the hearts and minds of the not so stodgy middle-aged survivors of the colorful and chaotic 60s and 70s.
When Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow was first published in 1987 it catapulted the author to national bestsellerdom and created a tidal wave of new and powerful legal thrillers on the literary scene.
About the Author: Scott Turow is the author of One L (1977), a book about his experiences as a first-year student at Harvard Law School; Presumed Innocent (1987), which was made into a major motion picture starring Harrison Ford; The Burden of Proof (1990), which was made into a TV mini-series; and Pleading Guilty (1993).
www.twbookmark.com /books/55/0446604402/press_release.html   (572 words)

  
 Author Information: Scott Turow :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turow’s first book, One L, about his experience as a first-year student at Harvard Law School, was published in 1977.
Turow devotes a substantial part of his practice now to pro bono work, including representations in cases involving the death penalty.
Turow was a member of the Illinois State Police Merit Board, which determines matters of hiring, promotion and discipline for members of the Illinois State Police.
www.iblist.com /author2007.htm   (528 words)

  
 CNN - Prose and cons: A profile of Scott Turow - October 22, 1999
Scott Turow burst on the scene with "Presumed Innocent," a best-seller about the murder of a young prosecutor, in 1987.
The broad outlines of the story are based on Turow's own experiences as an assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago in the 1980's, when the FBI and Justice Department conducted Operation Greylord.
Turow says his motivation for taking on corruption came from an experience recounted to him by his grandfather who had bought a gas station only to find that it had been condemned by the city.
www.cnn.com /books/dialogue/9910/turow/index.html   (373 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - One L, by Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bennett, William J. THE majestic reputation of the Harvard Law School is built in part on fancy and in part on fact; it is part fancy and part fact that every year, 550 of the country's brightest young men and...
...To Turow, who believes in "feelings" and "being compassionate," who spent "much of my life in activist politics-the civilrights and the anti-war movements, the McGovern campaign in '72"and who believes that education should be "a humane cooperative enterprise," all this is anathema...
...Scott Turow agrees that the students are splendid, but he strongly dissents from the common estimate of the soundness of the course of study and the quality and virtue of the professors...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V65I3P84-1.htm   (1169 words)

  
 Scott Turow's Reversible Errors
Turow served on 14-person commission appointed by Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who declared a moratorium on executions after 13 men were released from death row because of new DNA evidence.
Turow believes that at least one-third of the current death row inmates are mentally handicapped, a significant issue in light of June's Supreme Court decision exempting the ''mentally retarded'' from the death penalty.
Yet, Turow says, although anti-death-penalty advocates were very helpful during the Hernandez case, he could not bring himself to protest the execution of John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing 33 young men.
www.truthinjustice.org /reversible-errors.htm   (735 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Scott Turow
Scott Turow, best known for his cracking good courtroom dramas, such as "Presumed Innocent," also draws on a real-life story as inspiration for his new novel, Ordinary Heroes, which will be published Nov. 1.
"Scott Turow's Reversible Errors," the official title of the CBS miniseries airing at 9 tonight and Tuesday on Channel 9, may be more of a letdown than "Lion in Winter," since one expects Turow to whip up compellingly complex yarns that keep viewers on the proverbial edges of their seats...
Scott Turow is pretty cool, it remembers thinking at the time.Kofi Annan was almost too good to be true -- except The Firing Squad was there to watch as he was helicoptered in and out of Ryan Field.
news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Scott_Turow_Book.html   (3330 words)

  
 Authors on the Web - Scott Turow
Scott's novels are based on his real experiences as a lawyer in Chicago.
Scott takes the issue of capital punishment very seriously, and in 2000 he was appointed to a board with Illinois Governor George Ryan to review the state's capital punishment policy.
Scott enjoys writing on a computer because of the ability to shift around large blocks of text.
www.authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0211turow/turow-scott.asp   (583 words)

  
 Scott Turow
Born and raised in Chicago, Scott Turow must be considered one of the major US writers.
Turow got a contract for a personal account of his first year there that developed two years later into One L: An Inside Account of Life in the First Year at Harvard Law School.
After his degree in 1978 he joined Chicago's Attorney Office where he got a first hand insight in bribery as he was involved in a number of trials concerning judicial corruption in the city's courts.
www.bastulli.com /Turow/Turow.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Personal Injuries at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Having just completed “Personal Injuries” by Scott Turow, I found myself oddly at a loss to describe the book to my wife, who was to read it next.
Scott Turow is by far the best of the lawyer-turned-writers who have been churning out legal thrillers since his "Presumed Innocent" came out in 1986.
Scott Turow is by far the most literary author in the legal-thriller genre.
www.epinions.com /Personal_Injuries_by_Scott_Turow_and_narrated_by_Joe_Mantegna_and_narrated_by_Ken_Howard/display_~reviews/pp_~1/sort_~date/sort_dir_~des/sec_~opinion_list   (788 words)

  
 Ultimate Punishment, by Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scott Turow is known to millions as the author of peerless novels about the troubling regions of experience where law and reality intersect.
Along the way, Turow provides a brief history of America's ambivalent relationship with the ultimate punishment; analyzes the potent reasons for and against it, including the role of the victims' survivors; and tells the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the governor's mansion to Illinois' Super-Max prison and the execution chamber.
Scott Turow is the world-famous author of six best-selling novels about the law, from Presumed Innocent (1987) to Reversible Errors (2002), which centers on a death penalty case.
www.fsgbooks.com /fsg/ultimatepunishment.htm   (416 words)

  
 Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow: Reviews
In "Ordinary Heroes," as never before, Turow reaches beyond his belief in and love of the law and into history--one family's and our country's--to discover anew that there still lie in the marrow of human passions motivations and mysteries that can't be captured or categorized.
This novel provides a showcase for Turow's storytelling skills: he juggles the narratives, shifting back and forth in time with assurance; he is alert as always to character; the plot moves.
Turow has given us a captivating tale about the things ordinary people are sometimes required to do in extraordinary circumstances.
www.metacritic.com /books/authors/turowscott/ordinaryheroes   (717 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Ordinary Heroes : A Novel: Books: Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Turow adopts the device of the central character's father speaking through a long memorandum he had written at the end of the war to educate the lawyer defending him during a court martial.
Turow's impeccable feel for the dialogue of lawyers and judges does not wholly transfer to this war story--at times, one can hardly imagine that GI's under fire or some of the foreign characters would speak with such vocabulary ("raddled") and sentence structure.
Turow has done his research on the "Battle of the Bulge" and historically the novel is about as accurate as a work of fiction can be.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374184216?v=glance   (2832 words)

  
 Reversible Errors - Scott Turow
Turow arranges his novel largely around two couples: Arthur and the judge who convicted (and sentenced) Rommy, Gillian Sullivan on the one hand, and the prosecuting attorney Muriel Wynn and Larry Starczek, the investigating detective (who had, among other things, elicited the confession from Rommy).
Other aspects of the novel -- Turow's refusal to allow much to be depicted simply as fl and white or right or wrong, and to show how the legal process can be manipulated by the participants -- are more impressive.
The focus on the characters (rather than the legal aspects of the story) is an interesting approach, but Turow overdoes it by focussing on four rather than simply one or two (as well as by so ignoring Rommy).
www.complete-review.com /reviews/popus/turows.htm   (1369 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Laws of Our Fathers: Books: Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the close of legal-thriller novelist Scott Turow's second book, The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a young prosecutor in Kindle County Courthouse with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy.
Turow once again proves that there is more substance in a single page of one of his novels than in the entire works of John Grisham or any other author in the legal thriller genre.
Turow tries to mix elements of his legal thriller formula with an attempt to write a great novel about aging, crime, redemption, and other "Big Themes." The result is a botched mess, a sloppy book that fails to grasp the reader's attention.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446604402?v=glance   (1965 words)

  
 An Interview with Scott Turow Audio Book
Scott Turow, a successful Chicago defense attorney and a former federal prosecutor, is the author...
An Interview with Scott Turow was authored by Scott Turow and is narrated by Scott Turow.
An Interview with Scott Turow is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
www.audio-book.ws /books/interview-scott-turow.php   (495 words)

  
 Authors: Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
cott Turow was born in Chicago in 1949.
Today, he is a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal an international law firm, where his practice centers on white-collar criminal litigation and involves representation of individuals and companies in all phases of criminal matters.
Turow has been married to Annette Turow, a painter, since 1971.
www.twbookmark.com /authors/52/547   (212 words)

  
 THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Personal Injuries by Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scott Turow returns to the Kindle County he has made infamous in earlier novels.
Turow’s characters are multilayered and constantly shifting, and the resolution is highly complex.
As an attorney, I commend Scott Turow for addressing these issues and for his insight into the workings of the bar and bench.
www.themysteryreader.com /turow-personal.html   (463 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Presumed Innocent: Books: Scott Turow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Chicago defense attorney Turow, formerly a U.S. prosecutor, capitalizes on his intimate knowledge of the courtroom in an impressive first novel that matches Anatomy of a Murder in its intensity and verisimilitude.
With the calculating genius of a good lawyer (and writer), Turow, author of the nonfiction One L, draws the reader into a grittily realistic portrait of big city political corruption that climaxes with a dramatic murder trial in which every dark twist of legal statute and human nature is convincingly revealed.
Turow is a master at writing dialogue, it seems to flow naturally off the page and it makes all the characters believable and either likable, dislikable or downright hated.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446359866?v=glance   (1763 words)

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