Shawn Lawrence Otto
Shawn Lawrence Otto is the screenwriter and coproducer of the Oscar-nominated film House of Sand and Fog. He also writes for such top studios as DreamWorks and Lions Gate. His nonfiction has appeared in Rolling Stone, Science, and Salon, among other publications. He lives in Minneapolis.
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Sins of Our Fathers
- By: Shawn Lawrence Otto
- Narrator: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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From the screenwriter of the Oscar-nominated House of Sand and Fog comes a fierce, elegant page-turner about race, money, and the American Dream.
JW is a small-town banker; his specialty, teaching other bankers in towns near Indian reservations how... Read more
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