Timothy Egan
| Timothy Egan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 8, 1954 Seattle, Washington, United States |
| 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 |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | |
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Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954) 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 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". He currently lives in Seattle. He is a weekly op-ed writer for the New York Times.
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.
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 details some of the political issues facing Theodore Roosevelt. For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.
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