Timothy Egan
Egan in 2023
Born	(1954-11-08)November 8, 1954 (age 71) 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, 2010
Spouse	Joni Balter[1]
Children	2[2]
Website
timothyeganbooks.com

Timothy P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author,journalist, and formerop-ed columnist forThe New York Times. Egan has written ten books. Egan, a third-generation Westerner, lives in Seattle.

His first book,The Good Rain, won thePacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.^[3] ForThe Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through theGreat Depression'sDust Bowl, he won theNational Book Award for Nonfiction^[4][5] and theWashington State Book Award in History/Biography. His book on the photographerEdward 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 theGreat Fire of 1910, which burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) and helped shape theUnited States Forest Service. The book describes some of the political issues facingTheodore 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 aPulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series to which Egan contributed, "How Race is Lived in America".^[9][10]

In 2023, he publishedA Fever in the Heartland, about how the rape and murder ofMadge Oberholtzer helped undo the rising KKK tide in the U.S.^[11]

• 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]
• 2013Chautauqua Prize, winner,Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher^[12]
• 2013Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, winner,Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher^[13][14][15]
• 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.^[16]

• Egan, Timothy (1990).The Good Rain. Knopf.ISBN 0-394-57724-8.
• Egan, Timothy (1992).Breaking Blue. Knopf.ISBN 0-394-58819-3.
• Egan, Timothy (1998).Lasso the Wind. Knopf.ISBN 0-375-40024-9.
• Egan, Timothy (2004).The Winemaker's Daughter. Knopf.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. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN 978-0-618-96841-1.
• Egan, Timothy (2012).Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.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. Penguin.ISBN 978-0735225237.
• Egan, Timothy (2023).A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Penguin.ISBN 978-0735225268.

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