Timothy P. Egan
Born	( 1954-11-08 ) November 8, 1954 (age 69) Seattle, Washington , U.S.
Occupation	Writer, journalist, reporter
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 P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times .

Egan has written nine books. His first, The Good Rain , won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. ^[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. His book on the photographer Edward Curtis, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher," won the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence for nonfiction. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009) ^[6] is about the Great Fire of 1910 , which burned about three million acres (12,000 km ² ) and helped shape the United States Forest Service . The book describes some of the political issues facing Theodore Roosevelt . For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography ^[7] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. ^[8]

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". ^{[9] [10]}

Egan lives in Seattle, a third-generation Westerner.

Awards and honors [ edit ]

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• 2024 Notable Book. American Library Association, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. ^[11]
• 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]}

Works [ edit ]

• Egan, Timothy (1990). The Good Rain . Knopf. ISBN   0-394-57724-8 .
• Egan, Timothy (1992). Breaking Blue . Knopf. ISBN   0-394-58819-3 .
• Egan, Timothy (1998). Lasso the Wind . Knopf. ISBN   0-375-40024-9 .
• Egan, Timothy (2004). The Winemaker's Daughter . Knopf. ISBN   1-4000-4099-X .
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2006. ISBN   978-0-618-77347-3 .
• Egan, Timothy (2009). The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0-618-96841-1 .
• Egan, Timothy (2012). Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   978-0-618-96902-9 .
• The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero . 2016. ISBN   9780544272880
• Egan, Timothy (2019). A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith . Penguin. ISBN   978-0735225237 .
• Egan, Timothy (2023). A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them . Penguin. ISBN   978-0735225268 .

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External links [ edit ]

• Appearances on C-SPAN