PW: O.J. Trial Player Writes Non-O.J. Book

Judy Quinn |

Dec 08, 1997

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O.J. Trial Player Writes Non-O.J. Book
Judy Quinn -- 12/8/97
O.J. "dream team" member Barry Scheck has repeatedly turned down offers to write about the Trial of the Century, and months ago he told PW that the book he really wanted to write would focus on the Innocence Project, the DNA-evidence-based program that he and partner Peter Neufeld direct at New York's Cardozo Law School. Now Sterling Lord agent Philippa Brophy has sold a proposal for that book, tentatively titled Actual Innocence, to Doubleday editor-in-chief Pat Mulcahy for what is rumored to be a $500,000 preemptive bid for U.S. and Canadian hard/soft rights. Scheck, Neufeld and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Dwyer will cowrite the book, which will look at cases in which Scheck and Neufeld used modern DNA analysis to overturn old convictions (to date, 32 men have been released from death row). The book may touch briefly on the Simpson trial, but probably will not discuss the recent Louise Woodward "nanny" trial or the ongoing JonBenet Ramsey case, with which Sheck has been connected, Mulcahy said. Publication of Actual Innocence is planned for spring 1999.

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A version of this article appeared in the 12/08/1997 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: