Darrow’s The Story of My Life I must admit, if I am not reading for work, I read for escape. I do not often read legal themed fiction, and I have only read a few biographies of jurists. I stumbled across Clarence Darrow’s The Story of My Life and something about the old man’s piercing stare on the cover persuaded me to pick it up. At the time he wrote this book, Darrow had been practicing law more than ten times as long as I have. He was almost 50 years older than I am now. I think as an author he was a realist, to an extent, in that he knew the reader was mostly interested in his career