The Patch Interview
Scott Turow: 'You Have the Illusion at Least That You’re Going to Evolve'
In advance of his speech at Oak Park's Unity Temple, the author of "Presumed Innocent" tackles Amazon.com, defends Barney Frank and tells us what it's like to be robbed at gunpoint.
On a recent October afternoon, Scott Turow entered Evanston's Brothers K Coffeehouse, near his home on the north shore. Dressed in a Cubs cap and winter jacket, Turow walked up to the counter and ordered us coffee. No one stopped him, no one asked for an autograph. Turow seems to prefer it that way. The best-selling author Presumed Innocent, its 2010 sequel Innocent and nine other books, Turow has leaned on his experience as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago to create Kindle County, the fictional locale for his tales of legal intrigue, murder and deeply complicated protagonists. His work has been adapted on TV and on the silver screen, most notably 1990's Presumed Innocent, starring Harrison Ford. Turow, an alumnus of New Trier …
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