Timothy Egan

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

• 2013 Chautauqua Prize, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher^[10]
• 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher^[11][12][13]

Bibliography

• Timothy Egan (1990). The Good Rain.  
• Timothy Egan (1992). Breaking Blue.  
• Timothy Egan (1998). Lasso the Wind.  
• Timothy Egan (2004). The Winemaker's Daughter.  
• Egan, Timothy (2006).  
• Timothy Egan (October 2009). The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America.  
• Timothy Egan (October 2012). Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.