Beyond the Book: Background information when reading Ordinary Heroes

Beyond the Book

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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.

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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. Go to magazine.