Scott Turow, the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and other novels, graduated with high honors from Amherst College, receiving a fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center which he attended from 1970 to 1972. He then taught creative writing at Stanford. He entered Harvard Law School, graduating in 1978. For eight years, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago, serving as lead prosecutor in several high-visibility federal trials investigating corruption...