Scott Turow

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Scott Turow
Born	Scott Frederick Turow (1949-04-12) April 12, 1949 (age 75) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, lawyer
Education	Amherst College (BA) Stanford University Harvard University (JD)
Genre	Fiction, legal thrillers
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Scott Frederick Turow^[1] (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies.^[2] Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County. Films have been based on several of his books.