Timothy P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author,

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and

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columnist for ''

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'', writing from a

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perspective. Egan has written nine books. His first, ''The Good Rain'', won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. For ''

The Worst Hard Time ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl'' is an American history book written by ''New York Times'' journalist Timothy Egan and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. It tells the problems of peop ...

'', a 2006 book about people who lived through the

Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...

's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction"National Book Awards – 2006"
National Book Foundation; retrieved March 24, 2012. and the

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in History/Biography. ''The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America'' (2009) is about the

Great Fire of 1910 The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that burned in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into ...

, which burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) and helped shape the

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. The book describes some of the political issues facing

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. For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. 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"."National Reporting"
''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012. Egan lives in Seattle. He is a weekly op-ed writer for ''The New York Times''.

Awards and honors

*2013

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, winner, ''Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher'' *2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, winner, ''Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher''

Works

* * * * * * * * '' The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero''. 2016. *

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Egan, Timothy Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners National Book Award winners Living people University of Washington alumni Writers from Seattle The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners 1954 births