Scott Turow is an author and a practicing lawyer. He has written several legal thrillers such as The Burden of Proof, Presumed Innocent, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries, which Time Magazine named as the Best Fiction Novel of 1999. All four became bestsellers, and Turow won multiple literary awards, most notably the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers. In total, he has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies.