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Timothy Egan
Born (1954-11-08) November 8, 1954 (age 69)
Seattle, Washington, USA
OccupationCorrespondent (The New York Times)
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Washington
Alma materUniversity of Washington
GenreNonfiction
Notable worksThe Worst Hard Time
Notable awardsNational Book Award, 2006
PNBA Award, 1991, 2010
Washington State Book Award, 2006, 2010
SpouseJoni Balter[1]
ChildrenSophie Egan, Casey Egan[2]
Website
timothyeganbooks.com

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)[8] 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[9] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.[10]

Awards and honors

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

References

  1. ^ "Author biography". Random House. Retrieved December 19, 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ^ Denise Headd (November 10, 2012), "Pulitizer-Prize winner Timothy Egan delivers second Rosamond Gifford lecture in Syracuse", Syracuse.com blog, Syracuse Post-Standard
  3. ^ "National Book Awards – 2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
    (With blurbs and excerpt linked to his name.)
  4. ^ "2006 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction". The National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 24, 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. ^ "National Reporting". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  6. ^ Egan, Timothy. "Contributor biography". The New York Times. Retrieved February 24, 2009. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. ^ "1991 Book Awards". Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  8. ^ 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): 396–398.
  9. ^ "'Border Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book Awards". The Seattle Times. September 10, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  10. ^ "2010 Book Awards". Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  11. ^ Ron Charles (May 15, 2013). "Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"". Washington Post. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  12. ^ Bill Ott (June 30, 2013). "Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". Booklist. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  13. ^ Annalisa Pesek (July 3, 2013). "2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction". Library Journal. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  14. ^ "ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals". Publishers Weekly. April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

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