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First Published:
Nov 2005, 371 pages
Paperback:
Oct 2006, 512 pages
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About The
Author: Despite publishing
about ten books, including his
six legal thrillers (Reversible
Errors, Personal Injuries
etc), Turow continues to work as
an attorney majoring on white
collar criminal litigation and
pro bono work, including
cases involving the death
penalty.
He was born in 1949 in
Chicago, Illinois. He graduated
with high honors from Amherst
College in 1970 and then
attended the Stanford University
Creative Writing Center from
1970-72. He stayed at Stanford
teaching Creative Writing until
1975, when he entered Harvard
Law School, graduating in 1978.
His journal of his first year at
Harvard, One L, was
published in 1977 and became a
bestseller.
For the next eight years he was
an Assistant United States
Attorney in Chicago. He has
served, and continues to serve,
on a number of public bodies;
and has been married to Annette,
a painter, since 1971. They have
three children and live outside
Chicago.
Coming Soon:
Limitations (Nov 14, 2006):
A legal mystery set in Kindle
County, which apparently is
being published as a paperback
original. Only one review
so far from PW, who consider it
disappointing.
Interesting Link:
Annette Turow's website.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Ordinary Heroes. It originally ran in January 2006 and has been updated for the
October 2006 paperback edition.
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