# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-turow
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:24:39.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-turow"
name: "Scott Turow"
slug: "scott-turow"
description: "Scott Frederick Turow is an American writer and lawyer. Turow worked as a lawyer for a decade before writing full-time, and has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County. Films have been based on several of his books."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_Turow_at_National_Book_Festival_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.02086
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "ScottTurow"
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    handle:    "scottturowbooks"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0878017"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.scottturow.com"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Turow"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Туроу, Скотт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Scott Turow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump