Timothy Egan
| Timothy Egan | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 8, 1954 Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Occupation | Correspondent (The New York Times) |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | University of Washington |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| 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 | Sophie Egan, Casey Egan[2] |
| Website | |
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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
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- 2013 Chautauqua Prize, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher[11]
- 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, winner, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher[12][13][14]
Bibliography
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- Timothy Egan (2016), The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero. ISBN 9780544272880
References
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- ↑ "National Book Awards – 2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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- ↑ "National Reporting". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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