Timothy P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times, writing from a liberal perspective.[3]

Egan has written nine books. His first, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.[4] 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[5][6] and the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009)[7] 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 describes some of the political issues facing Theodore Roosevelt. For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography[8] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.[9]

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".[10][11]

Egan lives in Seattle. He is a weekly op-ed writer for The New York Times.[11]

Awards and honors

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• 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

• Egan, Timothy (1990). The Good Rain. ISBN 0-394-57724-8.
• Egan, Timothy (1992). Breaking Blue. ISBN 0-394-58819-3.
• Egan, Timothy (1998). Lasso the Wind. ISBN 0-375-40024-9.
• Egan, Timothy (2004). The Winemaker's Daughter. 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. ISBN 978-0-618-96841-1.
• Egan, Timothy (2012). Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. 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. ISBN 978-0735225237.

References

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN