Language English Name Timothy Egan Children Casey Egan, Sophie Egan | Genre Nonfiction Spouse Joni Balter Citizenship United States Role Author | |
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Born November 8, 1954 (age 70) Seattle, Washington, USA ( 1954-11-08 ) Alma mater University of Washington Books The Worst Hard Time: The Untol, The Big Burn: Teddy Ro, Short Nights of the Shad, Lasso the Wind: Away to t, Breaking Blue | ||
Education University of Washington | ||
Tracing the steps of edward curtis with author timothy egan
Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist and op-ed columnist for the New York Times, writing from a liberal perspective.
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- Tracing the steps of edward curtis with author timothy egan
- Timothy egan 2010 national book festival
- Awards and honors
- References
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.