Lawyer and award-winning author Scott Turow will deliver the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Twenty-First Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 4 p.m. in Godfrey & Kahn Hall (Room 2260).

Turow’s topic is “It’s Only Words: Thoughts of a Lawyer and Novelist.”

Turow is the author of eight best-selling novels and two books of nonfiction. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages and have sold more than 25 million copies. His first book, One L (1977), written while he was a Harvard law student about his first-year experience, is considered a classic for students entering law school.

Turow continues to work as an attorney. He has been a partner in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal since 1986, concentrating on white collar criminal defense, while also devoting a substantial amount of time to pro bono work.

Born in Chicago in 1949, Turow graduated with high honors from Amherst College in 1970, attended the Stanford University Creative Writing Center from 1970-1972, and taught Creative Writing at Stanford from 1972 to 1975. He then entered Harvard Law School, graduating with honors in 1978. From 1978 to1986, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago.

Turow has been active in a number of charitable causes, including organizations that promote literacy, education and legal rights. He frequently contributes essays and op-ed pieces to publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The New Yorker.

For more information on this lecture and the Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture Series see
http://www.law.wisc.edu/alumni/fairchild.html .

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