After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

He received an Edith Mirrielees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center where he attended from 1970 to 1972. Scott Turow later became a Jones Lecturer at Stanford serving until 1975 when he entered Harvard Law School. In 1977 Turow wrote One L a book about his first year at law school.

Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies. Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12 1949) is an American author and a practicing lawyer.