Timothy Egan
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| Born |
November 8, 1954 Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Occupation | Correspondent (The New York Times) |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Genres | Nonfiction |
| Notable work(s) | The Worst Hard Time |
| Notable award(s) |
National Book Award, 2006 PNBA Award, 1991, 2010 Washington State Book Award, 2006, 2010 |
| Spouse(s) | Joni Balter[1] |
| Children | Sophie Egan, Casey Egan[2] |
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Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author and journalist. For The Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through The Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction[3][4] and the Washington State Book Award in history/biography.
In 2001, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series to which Egan contributed, "How Race is Lived in America".[5][6] He currently lives in Seattle and contributes opinion columns as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent.
Books
Egan has written seven books including his National Book Award winner The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
His first, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.[7]
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009) is about the Great Fire of 1910, which 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 focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. For that one he won a second Washington State Book Award in history/biography[8] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.[9]
Awards and honors
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- 2013 Chautauqua Prize, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher[10]
Bibliography
- Timothy Egan (1990). The Good Rain. ISBN 0-394-57724-8.
- Timothy Egan (1992). Breaking Blue. ISBN 0-394-58819-3.
- Timothy Egan (1998). Lasso the Wind. ISBN 0-375-40024-9.
- Timothy Egan (2004). The Winemaker's Daughter. ISBN 1-4000-4099-X.
- Egan, Timothy (2006). The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-77347-3.
- Timothy Egan (October 2009). The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. ISBN 0-618-96841-5.
- Timothy Egan (October 2012). Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. ISBN 0-618-96902-0.
References
- ↑ Author biography. Random House. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ↑ Denise Headd (November 10, 2012), "Pulitizer-Prize winner Timothy Egan delivers second Rosamond Gifford lecture in Syracuse", Syracuse.com blog (Syracuse Post-Standard)
- ↑ "National Book Awards – 2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
(With blurbs and excerpt linked to his name.) - ↑ 2006 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction. The National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
- ↑ "National Reporting". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ↑ Egan, Timothy. Contributor biography. The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
- ↑ 1991 Book Awards. Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ↑ 'Border Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book Awards. The Seattle Times. September 10, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ↑ 2010 Book Awards. Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
- ↑ Ron Charles (May 15, 2013). "Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher”". Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
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