Word: turow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Turow's most recent claim to fame is Burden of Proof which, landing in bookstores in the summer of 1990, sold for a record-breaking $3.2 million in paperback rights...
...Turow, 43, wrote his critically acclaimed murder mystery Presumed Innocent during his morning commute to downtown Chicago where he worked as U.S. attorney for eight years...
...didn't set out to write a commercial book," Turow told The New York Times in June 1987, "I wasn't pot-boiling. My literary interests have always been serious, in terms of my training, my orientation...
After the success of Presumed Innocent, Turow was able to devote more time to his literary career, reducing his caseload by one half...
...widely afraid of self-imitation when I began the second book," said Turow to Time magazine. "I'm proud of Burden of Proof, particularly the portrait of Sandy Stern and his complicated involvements in family life...