He has written eight best selling novels including "Presumed Innocent," and he's still a practicing attorney in Chicago, but Scott Turow is also among the afflicted.

He's a Cubs fan.

In the book "The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball" (written by Glen Stout and Richard A. Johnson), he contributed an essay. The final few sentences sums up what it is to a be Cubs fan as well as anyone ever has.

"There remains a special meaning in being a Cubs fan. It makes sports more profound. It teaches the hardest lesson of all: there is no life that is better than life. Hope dignifies our experience on the planet. But there will be defeat for all of us in the mortuary. With the Cubs, as a writer-friend once said of Hollywood, 'You learn to take the bitter with the bad.' You accept hope as an essential irrational part of the human condition that will never be fully borne out. It's existential. It's tragic. It's the Cubs."