![]() Thus it was Jon, who brought me the shocking news that there was a Sandy Stern in that book, too. When my editor, Jonathan Galassi, first bought Presumed Innocent for Farrar Straus & Giroux in 1986, he was dedicated enough to go back and read One L. The new Stern-Rusty Sabich’s clever and urbane defense lawyer-bore little resemblance to the somewhat pompous “Sandy Stern” in One L, and so I never made the connection. Even in One L, my memoir of my first year in law school that was published in 1977, where I changed the names of classmates and professors to protect their privacy, there was a “Sandy Stern,” albeit nothing like the man I invented a few years later when I began writing Presumed Innocent on the morning commuter train, on my way to work as a federal prosecutor in Chicago. There has been a character named Sandy Stern in almost every book I have written. ![]()
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