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Shawn Lawrence Otto (born April 21, 1961) is an American novelist, nonfiction author, filmmaker, political strategist, speaker, science advocate, and screenwriter and co-producer of the 2003 film House of Sand and Fog
Biography [ edit ]
Otto co-founded and became the CEO of the Science Debate 2008 . Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain participated in the debate.
Otto delivered keynotes at the 45th annual Nobel Conference , on "Democracy in the Age of Science",[1] United States National Academies , on "Examining the Mistrust of Science,",[2] New York Academy of Sciences , the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), and the European Conference of Science Journalists. He has discussed science and politics on National Public Radio 's Talk of the Nation : Science Friday
Otto's work has been published in Science Salon.com Huffington Post MinnPost.com Issues in Science & Technology [3] New Scientist Scientific American .[4] [5]
Otto lives on a hobby farm near Marine on St. Croix with his wife, Rebecca Otto , a former Minnesota State Auditor and 2018 candidate for Governor .[6] [7] C.D. Gilfillan , co-founded the Republican Party of Minnesota .[8]
Otto is a past (2009–2011) Board Chair of the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis .
Awards and honors [ edit ]
Otto's 2016 book The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It (ISBN 978-1571313539 ) won the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction, in 2017.[13]
Otto's book Fool Me Twice won the 2012 Minnesota Book Award for non-fiction and received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly .[14] [15]
His film House of Sand and Fog Academy Awards .
Otto's first screenplay , Shining White , won the Heathcote Award, the McKnight Artist Fellowship and the Barry Morrow Fellowship.
He is a PEN Center USA Literary Awards finalist in screenwriting for House of Sand and Fog
He is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow for his project Hubble.[16]
References [ edit ]
^ "Perspective: Science on the Campaign Trail" . January 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ "Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy" . Scientific American . Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ "A Plan to Defend against the War on Science" . Scientific American . Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ "Shawn Otto, spouse of Minnesota's auditor, writes first novel, but he's no novice" . 6 December 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
^ "State auditor Rebecca Otto to run for governor" . 9 January 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
^ Smalley, Eugene Virgil (1896). "A History of the Republican Party" . Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
^ Otto, Shawn Lawrence (25 November 2014). Sins of Our Fathers . ISBN 978-1571311092
^ "Fiction Book Review: Sins of Our Fathers by Shawn Lawrence Otto. Milkweed, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-57131-109-2" .
^ "2014: Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners & Finalists" . Archived from the original on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
^ "Minnesota Book Award Winners & Finalists" . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ "Minnesota Book Award Winners & Finalists" . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. Retrieved 16 August 2018 .
^ "Shawn Lawrence Otto | Fool Me Twice" . www.shawnotto.com . Archived from the original on 2011-06-19.
^ "Minnesota Book Award Winners & Finalists" . Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
^ "Tribeca Film Fest Announces Tribeca/Sloan Screenplay Winners" . Retrieved 23 August 2018 .
de Turenne, Veronique (January 5, 2004). "House of Sand and Fog". Variety
"Star Tribune , Minneapolis, C.J. column". Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News . August 3, 2006.
Boyle, Alan (October 20, 2008). "Science goes under the political microscope". MSNBC
External links [ edit ]
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
