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Brando Skyhorse

Brando Skyhorse
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Brando Skyhorse

Born and raised in Echo Park, California, Brando Skyhorse is a graduate of Stanford University and the MFA Writers’ Workshop program at UC Irvine. His first book, The Madonnas of Echo Park, received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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The Madonnas of Echo Park will be released on February 08, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Feb 08, 2011
The Madonnas of Echo Park is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 08, 2011
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Sep 29, 2010
The Madonnas of Echo Park is now available in eAudio
Jun 01, 2010
The Madonnas of Echo Park is now available in eBook
Jun 01, 2010
The Madonnas of Echo Park will be released on June 01, 2010 in eBook
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The Madonnas of Echo Park will be released on June 01, 2010 in eAudio
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Manchester Wired, October 9, 2012
...in production. Marcel also wrote the pilot episode for Terra Nova and will produce the TV adaptation of Brando Skyhorse's novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO...
Manchester Wired, October 9, 2012
...in production. Marcel also wrote the pilot episode for Terra Nova and will produce the TV adaptation of Brando Skyhorse's novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO...
BBC, October 9, 2012
...in production. Marcel also wrote the pilot episode for Terra Nova and will produce the TV adaptation of Brando Skyhorse's novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO...
Montclair Patch, June 26, 2012
...Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Madonnas of Echo Park:  A Novel by Brando Skyhorse A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by...
New York Times, October 12, 2012
...furniture they need for their next artistic endeavor.” Neighbors can also rummage for an entrance fee of $5. Brando Skyhorse, author of “The Madonnas of Echo Park” and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, will read from his forthcoming memoir at...
Manchester Wired, October 9, 2012
...in production. Marcel also wrote the pilot episode for Terra Nova and will produce the TV adaptation of Brando Skyhorse's novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO...
Manchester Wired, October 9, 2012
...in production. Marcel also wrote the pilot episode for Terra Nova and will produce the TV adaptation of Brando Skyhorse's novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO...
BBC, October 9, 2012
...in production. Marcel also wrote the pilot episode for Terra Nova and will produce the TV adaptation of Brando Skyhorse's novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO...
New York Times, August 1, 2012
...including Laila Lalami (“Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits”), Sarah McCoy (“The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico”) and Brando Skyhorse (“The Madonnas of Echo Park”) is that they really do want to hear high school students’ reactions to and...
New York Times, August 1, 2012
...including Laila Lalami (“Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits”), Sarah McCoy (“The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico”) and Brando Skyhorse (“The Madonnas of Echo Park”) is that they really do want to hear high school students’ reactions to and...
Montclair Patch, June 26, 2012
...Whiteboy by Matt de la Pena The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Madonnas of Echo Park:  A Novel by Brando Skyhorse A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian by...