Timothy Egan

Timothy Egan
Born (1954-11-08) November 8, 1954
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Occupation Writer, journalist, reporter
Citizenship United States
Education University of Washington
Genre Non-fiction
Notable works The Worst Hard Time
Notable awards National Book Award, 2006
PNBA Award, 1991, 2010
Washington State Book Award, 2006, 2010
Spouse Joni Balter[1]
Children 2[2]
Website
timothyeganbooks.com

Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist and op-ed columnist for the New York Times, writing from a liberal perspective.[3]

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[4][5] 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".[6][7] He currently lives in Seattle. He is a weekly op-ed writer for the New York Times.[7]

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.[8]

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009)[9] 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 details some of the political issues facing Theodore Roosevelt. For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography[10] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.[11]

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Bibliography

References

  1. "Author biography". Random House. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
  2. "Pulitizer-Prize winner Timothy Egan delivers second Rosamond Gifford lecture in Syracuse", Syracuse.com blog, Syracuse Post-Standard, November 10, 2012
  3. http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/the-media-elite-is-not-solely-conservative
  4. "National Book Awards – 2006". National Book Foundation; retrieved March 24, 2012.
  5. "2006 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction". The National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  6. "National Reporting". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  7. 1 2 Egan, Timothy. "Contributor biography". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  8. "1991 Book Awards". Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  9. Ostler, Jeffrey (Fall 2010). "Review of The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 111 (3): 396–98. JSTOR 10.5403/oregonhistq.111.3.0396.
  10. "'Border Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book Awards". The Seattle Times. September 10, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  11. "2010 Book Awards". Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  12. Ron Charles (May 15, 2013). "Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"". Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  13. Bill Ott (June 30, 2013). "Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". Booklistonline.com. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  14. Annalisa Pesek (July 3, 2013). "2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". Library Journal. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  15. "ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals". Publishers Weekly. April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
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