Timothy Egan

rdf:langString Timothy Egan

rdf:langString Timothy P. Egan

rdf:langString Timothy P. Egan

rdf:langString Seattle, Washington, U.S.

rdf:langString National Book Award, 2006

rdf:langString PNBA Award, 1991, 2010

rdf:langString Washington State Book Award, 2006, 2010

rdf:langString United States

rdf:langString University of Washington

rdf:langString Non-fiction

rdf:langString The Worst Hard Time

rdf:langString Writer, journalist, reporter

rdf:langString Joni Balter

rdf:langString 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. Egan has written nine books. His first, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. 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 and the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009) 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 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". Egan lives in Seattle. He is a weekly op-ed writer for The New York Times.