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...offer came to join the U.S. attorney's staff in Chicago, he and Annette jumped at it. "I thought it was the best job imaginable, that it had the power to help shape the community." The return to their native city marked an important rite of passage for the Turows, a sense that the onetime prodigal children had returned and were prepared to become adults. "I had been taught that all writers have to find their roots," Turow says. "Well, I found mine in the upper-middle class...
...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...
This was heady stuff for a young attorney, but Turow had something else on his mind as well. On his half-hour train commutes from his suburban bungalow, he had begun a novel, jotting scenes in a spiral notebook. Given these conditions, the book lurched along fitfully, and Turow often felt that Presumed Innocent would never be finished. "Eventually Annette told me to quit my job and get that book out of my system." He took the late summer of 1986 off and submitted a manuscript two weeks before reporting for work at his new firm. "I hoped that...
...Turow's life at the moment is hectic. As a lawyer, he is representing clients in what he delicately describes as "three grand-jury matters" that will occupy some of his attention as he sets off on a coast-to-coast publicity tour for his new novel. Why not simply stay at home and take care of business? "Since I've taken money for this project, I owe all the people who have an investment...
...this guy be for real? Writers, especially the rich and famous ones, are not supposed to be self-effacing and cooperative, nor to heap praise and gratitude on their editors and publishers. Turow regularly does: "Jonathan Galassi ((editor in chief at Farrar, Straus & Giroux)) made recommendations that substantially improved both Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof. After the way I've been treated by my publisher, I'd be a schmuck to think about going somewhere else." That is a distinct departure in an age when publishing-world loyalties have been swept away by bidding wars and the lure...