Word: turow
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After writing for the New Trier High Schoolnewspaper, Turow decided to become an author, muchto the dismay of his parents who had envisioned amedical career for their...
...English major at Amherst college, Turow,studying under author Tillie Olsen, published ashort story in the Transatlantic Review...
...fall of 1970, in his first year atStanford, Turow began writing The WayThings Are, a moralistic novel about a rentstrike which he unsuccessfully tried 25 times topublish...
Thwarted in his first literary endeavor, Turowremained as a teacher at Stanford for two years,before taking the LSATs. Although Turow wasoffered a tenure tracked position at RochesterUniversity and a contract to write movie scripts,he chose Cambridge and law school instead...
...generally have a fascination with the law,"Turow said. "The duties owed to citizens by thegovernment, by each other...the obligations andkinds of conduct expected...