Keith Meacham, co-chair of this year’s Literary Award Gala, read Presumed Innocent on a beach trip in 1988.  It was her first Scott Turow novel, and she was in for a surprise.  “It must have just come out in paperback around then, and I remember buying it as a guilty pleasure, a beach read.  Within a few pages, I knew that I had misjudged; this was no …

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