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American writer
Timothy P. Egan
Born (1954-11-08 ) November 8, 1954 (age 69)
Seattle, Washington , U.S.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
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Timothy P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author,
journalist and former
op-ed columnist for
The New York Times .
Egan has written nine books. His first, The Good Rain , won the
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.
[3] 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
[4]
[5] and the
Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. His book on the photographer Edward Curtis, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher," won the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence for nonfiction. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009)
[6] 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
[7] and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.
[8]
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".
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[10]
Egan lives in Seattle, a third-generation Westerner.
Awards and honors
Works
References
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"Author biography" . Random House. Retrieved December 19, 2010 .
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"Pulitizer-Prize winner Timothy Egan delivers second Rosamond Gifford lecture in Syracuse" , Syracuse.com blog ,
Syracuse Post-Standard , November 10, 2012
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"1991 Book Awards" . Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011 . [
permanent dead link ]
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"National Book Awards – 2006" .
National Book Foundation ; retrieved March 24, 2012.
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"2006 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction" . The National Book Foundation. Retrieved February 24, 2009 .
^ 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): 396–98.
doi :
10.5403/oregonhistq.111.3.0396 .
JSTOR
10.5403/oregonhistq.111.3.0396 .
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" 'Border Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book Awards" . The Seattle Times . September 10, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011 .
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"2010 Book Awards" . Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Archived from
the original on January 11, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011 .
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"National Reporting" . Past winners & finalists by category . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
^ Egan, Timothy.
"Contributor biography" . The New York Times . Retrieved February 24, 2009 .
^ Moore, Ninah.
2024 Notable Books List Announced: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry. January 20, 2024.
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Ron Charles (May 15, 2013).
"Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" " .
Washington Post . Retrieved September 26, 2013 .
^ Bill Ott (June 30, 2013).
Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction . Retrieved March 17, 2014 – via Booklistonline.com.
^ Annalisa Pesek (July 3, 2013).
"2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction" .
Library Journal . Retrieved March 17, 2014 .
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"ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals" .
Publishers Weekly . April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014 .
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