In 1977, after his first year at Harvard Law School, Turow published
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Turow has won many awards over the years, including the prestigious Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers. Turow is also a partner in a Chicago law firm.
Getting Turow to appear in the NIE ad series was quite a coup. As a native Chicagoan, a successful author and a national name, Turow might have been our biggest achievement celeb-wise.
Sheepishly, I must admit to not being as familiar with Turow's life as Laurie was, but writing is her passion. I think initially, she was more excited than I was about landing Turow. Of course, I realized she was completely correct on this one.
For me, Turow represented a certain legitimization of the ad series. With no offense to the great celebs who graciously appeared before him, Turow's appearance showed we could get a serious national literary figure.
2 comments:
i even heard that laurie edited or wanted to edit the quote and that turow was cool with that. that shows he is a professional and that she has *&^%$ to want to try to edit this publishing dynamo.
Dear A-There is much more to the Laurie editing story than Scott Turow. In fact, I was building towards the story which would have the big reveal with the next NIE post. So stay tuned.
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