![]() ![]() ![]() Then came $1 million for screen rights, with a paperback sale still pending - and obviously appreciating as the novel climbs best-seller lists.īut Turow's good fortune cannot be written off entirely to luck. Turow finally accepted $200,000 from a house whose reputation he admired. Unlike most such manuscripts, however, his did not meet with indifference and rejection in fact, publishers competed eagerly to buy the book. ![]() He has also, like thousands of others among the gainfully employed, written in his spare time. Attorney's office and then as a partner in a private firm. Since 1978 he has been a lawyer in his hometown, working for eight years in the U.S. The latest beneficiary of this bolt-from-the-blue largesse is a Chicagoan named Scott Turow, 38. Every so often, reality conspires to reward both desires at once. Want to be read most of them will also confess to dreams of striking it rich. ![]()
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