Timothy Egan

Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954 in Seattle, Washington) is a Pulitzer Prize winning author who resides in Seattle. He currently contributes opinion columns to The New York Times as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his contribution to the series How Race is Lived in America.^[2]

In addition to his work with The New York Times, he has written six books, including The Good Rain (Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, 1991^[3]), Breaking Blue, and Lasso the Wind.

The Worst Hard Time is a non-fiction account of those who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, for which he won the 2006 Washington State Book Award in history/biography and a 2006 National Book Award.^[4]

Most recently he wrote The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, which details the Great Fire of 1910 that burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) and helped shape the United States Forest Service. The book also details some of the political issues of the time focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. Egan won a second Washington State Book Award in history/biography in 2010 for this work,^[5] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.^[6]

Bibliography

• Timothy Egan (1990). The Good Rain. ISBN 0394577248. 
• Timothy Egan (1992). Breaking Blue. ISBN 0394588193. 
• Timothy Egan (1998). Lasso the Wind. ISBN 0375400249. 
• Timothy Egan (2004). The Winemaker's Daughter. ISBN 140004099X. 
• Egan, Timothy (2006). The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780618773473. 
• Timothy Egan (October 2009). The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. ISBN 0618968415. 

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