Scott Frederick Turow attended New Trier High School, Winnetka and Amherst College. Turow won a fellowship to the Stanford University Writing Center, where he later taught. After finishing up at Harvard Law School, Turow was an assistant U.S. State's Attorney in Chicago. While he wrote a book, One L, about his experiences as a law student, he began his first mystery bestseller, Presumed Innocent, on the train as he commuted into Chicago from the northern suburbs. It was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring fellow Cook County native Harrison Ford. Turow has now written seven best-selling novels.