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Timothy P. Egan
Born (1954-11-08 ) November 8, 1954 (age 69 ) Seattle, Washington , U.S.Occupation Writer, journalist, reporter 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, 2010Spouse Joni Balter[1] Children 2 [2] timothyeganbooks .com
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. Egan, a third-generation Westerner, lives in Seattle.
His first book, 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 km 2 ) 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".[9] [10]
Awards and honors
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1991 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, The Good Rain [3]
2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, "How Race is Lived in America" (contributor)[9]
2006 National Book Award for Nonfiction, The Worst Hard Time [4]
2006 Washington State Book Award in History/Biography, The Worst Hard Time
2010 Washington State Book Award in History/Biography, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America [7]
2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America [8]
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]
2024 Notable Book. American Library Association, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. [15]
Writings
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References
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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
^ a b "1991 Book Awards" . Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Retrieved February 2, 2011 . [permanent dead link ]
^ a b
"National Book Awards – 2006" . National Book Foundation ; retrieved March 24, 2012.
^ "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 .
^ a b
" 'Border Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book Awards" . The Seattle Times . September 10, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011 .
^ a b "2010 Book Awards" . Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. Archived from the original on January 11, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011 .
^ a b "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 .
^ 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 .
^ "ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals" . Publishers Weekly . April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014 .
^ Moore, Ninah. 2024 Notable Books List Announced: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry. January 20, 2024.
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