Timothy Egan

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]

Awards and honors

• 2013 Chautauqua Prize, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher^[12]
• 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher^[13][14][15]

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. 
• Timothy Egan (2016), The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero; ISBN 9780544272880

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