Turow will discuss the challenges of this dilemma in today's address . Turow says hi speech will focus on "where I was on my equivalent class day and the lessons I gleaned 22 yeas down the line."

Turow says he will talk about "the vicis- situdes of life and the burden of beingtalented."

Turow's talents became evident to the generalpublic more than 15 years ago. By the time hegraduated from Harvard Law School in 1978, he hadalready published his first book, One L,which describes his experiences and observationsas a first-year student at the school.

And since then, Turow has spent his lifebalancing the demands of the legal, literary andfamilial worlds.

Born in a North Chicago neighborhood, son of agynecologist father and writer mother, Turow movedto Winnetka, and affluent Chicago suburb when hewas 13.

After writing for the New Trier High Schoolnewspaper, Turow decided to become an author, muchto the dismay of his parents who had envisioned amedical career for their son.

As an English major at Amherst college, Turow,studying under author Tillie Olsen, published ashort story in the Transatlantic Review.

Hoping to establish a literary career, Turowwent to Stanford University on a fellowship tostudy creative writing. He was accompanied by hisone-time blind date and now wife, AnnetteWeisberg.

In the fall of 1970, in his first year atStanford, Turow began writing The WayThings Are, a moralistic novel about a rentstrike which he unsuccessfully tried 25 times topublish.

Thwarted in his first literary endeavor, Turowremained as a teacher at Stanford for two years,before taking the LSATs. Although Turow wasoffered a tenure tracked position at RochesterUniversity and a contract to write movie scripts,he chose Cambridge and law school instead.

"I generally have a fascination with the law,"Turow said. "The duties owed to citizens by thegovernment, by each other...the obligations andkinds of conduct expected."

Immediately, Turow was given a $4000 advance towrite about his law school experiences. Theresult, One L, was published in 1977 duringhis senior year at the school, and has been hailedby Time magazine as the "underground,pass-along classic among law students."

"I learned a lot about myself in law school,"said Turow in a 1990 inverview with Time. "Ifinally got over the '60s. I discovered thatraging inside of me was a competitive, acquisitivelittle Jewish boy from Chicago."

But he toll The Crimson, "No, I don't think[law school] prepared me for the real world."

Turow says that although some of his law schoolclinical experiences introduced him to theprofession, "law school does not aim to and doesnot give a practical approach to law."

He adds that the Law School was not always a"sunny atmosphere," and that it was "intenselycompetitive."