Scott Turow put in an average of 2,800 hours yearly as an assistant US Attorney while he was writing Presumed Innocent, his 1987 best-seller. To finish the book, Turow wrote during his morning commute. “I wrote 26 or 28 minutes a day. It doesn’t sound like a lot, maybe, but if I hadn’t done it, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”
The occasion for that conversation: the publication of Innocent, a Presumed Innocent sequel that Turow never planned to write. Now a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Turow still works his writing around his ‘day job’ – these days that means two “very active matters”. One is an indicted criminal case; the other is a pro bono case with “some critical stuff happening.” Turow recently spoke to The Am Law Daily.
