Scott Turow put in an average of 2,800 hours yearly as an assistant U.S. attorney while he was writing “Presumed Innocent,” his 1987 best-seller. To finish the book, Mr. 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 Mr. Turow never planned to write. Now a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, Mr. 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.”
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