Scott Turow

Scott Turow (2008)

Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American writer and lawyer .

Life

After graduating from Harvard University , Turow worked as a prosecutor in Chicago from 1978 to 1986. During this time he represented the indictment in several corruption trials . He then devoted himself to writing books, for which he received several awards, including the Silver Dagger of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA).

Scott Turow's book Presumed Innocent was filmed in 1990 by Alan J. Pakula with Harrison Ford in the lead role. His novels about the US judicial system are bestsellers , with over 25 million copies sold worldwide.

Turow is an opponent of the death penalty . As a partner in the law firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago, he took on a number of cases free of charge (pro bono) and in 1995 obtained the release of Alejandro Hernandez, who had spent eleven years innocent on death row . Turow was a member of a commission that recommended that the Illinois governor suspend the execution of all death sentences because of serious procedural errors in many of the cases investigated.

Turow has been married to his wife Annette since 1971 and has three children.

Awards

• 1987 Silver Dagger for: Presumed Innocent . Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York 1987 (German title: For lack of evidence . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988)
• 1988 Swedish Crime Award (International) for: Misstänkt . Albert Bonnier, Stockholm 1987. (Original title: Presumed Innocent . Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York 1987; German title: For lack of evidence . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1988)

Works

as an author

• Kindle County series
  • For lack of evidence. Roman ("Presumed Innocent"). Heyne, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-43248-2 .
  • The burden of truth . Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-426-71158-3 (Original title: The Burden of Proof . Continuation of Presumed Innocent ; filmed for TV).
  • So help me money. Roman ("Pleading Guilty"). Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-43268-0 .
  • The law of the fathers. Roman ("The Laws of Our Fathers"). Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-46086-7 .
  • The greedy and the righteous. Roman ("Personal Injuries"). Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-45259-7 .
  • The poison of certainty . Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-45947-8 (original title: Reversible Errors . Filmed for TV with Tom Selleck and William H. Macy ).
  • Biased. Roman ("Limitations"). Heyne, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-43419-6 .
  • The final proof . Blessing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-424-1 (American English: Innocent . Continuation of Presumed Innocent ; filmed for TV with Alfred Molina and Bill Pullman ).
  • The heirs of Zeus . Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-41958-2 (American English: Identical . Continuation to Innocent ).

• Other novels
  • The command ("Ordinary Heroes"). Heyne, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-43254-3 .

• Non-fiction
  • One L. The turbulent story of the first year at Harvard Law School . Warner Books, New York 1997, ISBN 0-446-67378-1 .
  • Ultimate punishment. A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2003, ISBN 0-374-12873-1 .

as editor

• Closing speech ("Guilty as Charged. The Penguin Book of New American Crime Writing"). Knaur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-60560-0 .

literature

• Derek Lundy: Scott Turow. Meeting the enemy . ECW Press, Toronto 1995, ISBN 1-55022-234-1 .
• Andrew and Gina Macdonald: Scott Turow. A critical companion . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 2005, ISBN 0-313-33115-4 .

Web links

• Homepage (English)