Scott Turow's accomplishments as both an attorney and author are many and well known. He published his first book, One L, about his experience as a first-year student at Harvard Law School in 1977. Since then he has published a number of best-selling novels, including Presumed Innocent, the Burden of Proof, and Personal Injuries. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have sold approximately twenty-five million copies worldwide. Mr. Turow received a fellowship to Stanford University Creative Writing Center and stayed on to teach creative writing at Stanford until 1975, whereupon he entered Harvard Law School. As an attorney in Chicago he served as Assistant United States Attorney from 1978 to 1986. During his tenure he was lead government counsel in a number of trials connected to Operation Greylord, a federal investigation of corruption in the Illinois judiciary. Mr. Turow has served on a number of public bodies. He is currently Chair of the Illinois State Appellate Defender's Commission, which oversees the state agency that represents indigent criminal defendants in their appeals. He is recognized with the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award for his work as a published author, teacher, and for his volunteer efforts on behalf of a number of charitable causes, most notably his work for Literacy Chicago.
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