On My Careers in Crime
On My Careers in Crime
Starting the volume is Scott Turow’s “On My Careers in Crime,” the keynote speech of the conference in which he describes his occupations as a writer and lawyer. He did not set out to be a “crime writer” but simply a novelist, and yet he was inevitably attracted to stories that include an element of crime, especially after he began working with state prosecutors as a law student and, later, became a federal prosecutor himself. With the unique perspective of a lawyer who has worked on criminal cases weaving narratives for the jury and who has also worked as a writer creating stories about lawyers who weave such narratives, Turow reflects on the deep power that crime stories have for all of us.
Keywords: Scott Turow, crime fiction, crime writing, novels, lawyers
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