Scott Turow featured speaker at Fust Foundation February 7
On Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 4:30 p.m., the Johann Fust Library Foundation will host its 2023 Annual Benefit, featuring best-selling author Scott Turow, presenting his newest novel “Suspect” in the auditorium of the Boca Grande Community Center.
The Foundation wishes to thank its many sponsors of the benefit and now announces that General Admission tickets are available for $75 per person.
Turow is a writer, an attorney and the author of 14 bestselling works of fiction, including “Presumed Innocent” and “The Last Trial.” His newest novel, Suspect, was published by Grand Central Publishing in September 2022. Turow has also published two nonfiction books, including “One L,” about his experience as a law student, and “Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty.”
He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His works have also been adapted into movie and television projects. Most recently, Apple TV+ announced that it will soon stream an eight-part limited series based on Presumed Innocent.
In 1986, Turow became a partner in the Chicago office of Dentons LLC, an international law firm, concentrating on white-collar criminal defense, while also devoting a substantial part of his time to pro bono matters. He retired from commercial practice in 2020.
From 1978 until 1986, Mr. Turow worked as Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He has served on a number of public bodies, including the Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment, which proposed reforms to Illinois’ death penalty system and he was the first Chair of Illinois’ Executive Ethics Commission, created in 2004 to regulate executive branch employees in the Illinois State government.
Turow is a former president of the Authors Guild, the nation’s largest membership organization of professional writers. Currently, he serves as an Emeritus Trustee of Amherst College and a Trustee of The Poetry Foundation.
Suspect is available for purchase in the Johann Fust Library Foundation’s office, upstairs at the library. The Foundation’s hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The novel is also available for purchase downtown, at The Tide in the Theatre Building.
To purchase General Admission tickets to the register, visit the Johann Fust Library Foundation’s website, JFLFBG.org. For questions, email info@JFLFBG.org or call (941) 964-0211.
