{{Short description|American writer (born 1954)}} {{about||the member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives|Timothy Egan (politician)}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc. --> | name = Timothy Egan | image = INconversation with Timothy Egan Muncie (53336048409) (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Egan in 2023 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|11|08}} | birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Writer, journalist, reporter | education = University of Washington | genre = Non-fiction | notableworks = ''The Worst Hard Time'' | spouse = Joni Balter<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=58089|title=Author biography|publisher=Random House|accessdate=December 19, 2010}}</ref> | children = 2<ref>{{citation|title=Pulitizer-Prize winner Timothy Egan delivers second Rosamond Gifford lecture in Syracuse|date=November 10, 2012|work=Syracuse.com blog|publisher=Syracuse Post-Standard|url=http://blog.syracuse.com/entertainment/2012/11/pulitizer-prize_winner_timothy.html}}</ref> | awards = National Book Award, 2006 <br>PNBA Award, 1991, 2010 <br>Washington State Book Award, 2006, 2010 | website = {{URL|http://timothyeganbooks.com}} | imagesize = }}
'''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 ten books. Egan, a third-generation Westerner, lives in Seattle.
His first book, ''The Good Rain'', won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.<ref name=pnba1991>{{Cite journal|publisher=Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association|url=http://www.pnba.org/Awards1991.htm|title=1991 Book Awards|accessdate=February 2, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=April 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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<ref name=nba2006> [https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2006 "National Book Awards – 2006"]. National Book Foundation; retrieved March 24, 2012.</ref><ref name=nbablurb>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006_nf_egan.html|publisher=The National Book Foundation|title=2006 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction|accessdate=February 24, 2009}}</ref> 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)<ref>{{cite journal |jstor=10.5403/oregonhistq.111.3.0396 |author=Ostler, Jeffrey |title=Review of ''The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America'' by Timothy Egan|journal=Oregon Historical Quarterly|volume=111|issue=3|date=Fall 2010|pages=396–98|doi=10.5403/oregonhistq.111.3.0396 }}</ref> is about the Great Fire of 1910, which burned about three million acres (12,000 km<sup>2</sup>) 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<ref name=SeattleTimes20100910> {{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2012855103_litlife13.html|title='Border Song' and 'The Big Burn' among 2010 Washington State Book Awards|date=September 10, 2010|newspaper=The Seattle Times|accessdate=February 2, 2011}}</ref> and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.<ref name=pnba2010>{{Cite web|publisher=Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association|url=http://www.pnba.org/Awards2010.htm|title=2010 Book Awards|accessdate=February 2, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111072345/http://www.pnba.org/awards2010.htm|archivedate=January 11, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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".<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/National-Reporting "National Reporting"]. ''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.</ref><ref name="NYTbio">{{Cite news|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/timothy_egan/index.html|title=Contributor biography|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=February 24, 2009|first=Timothy|last=Egan}}</ref>
In 2023, he published ''A Fever in the Heartland'', about how the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer helped undo the rising KKK tide in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/apr/02/in-timothy-egans-new-book-a-fever-in-the-heartland/ | title=In Timothy Egan's new book 'A Fever in the Heartland,' Madge Oberholtzer, the woman who brought down the Klan, gets her due | date=April 2, 2023 }}</ref>
==Awards and honors== *1991 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, ''The Good Rain''<ref name=pnba1991/> *2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, "How Race is Lived in America" (contributor)<ref name=pulitzer/> *2006 National Book Award for Nonfiction, ''The Worst Hard Time''<ref name=nba2006/> *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''<ref name=SeattleTimes20100910/> *2010 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, ''The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America''<ref name=pnba2010/> *2013 Chautauqua Prize, winner, ''Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/05/15/timothy-egan-wins-chautauqua-prize-for-short-nights-of-the-shadow-catcher|title=Timothy Egan wins Chautauqua Prize for "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher"|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Ron Charles|author-link=Ron Charles (critic)|date=May 15, 2013|accessdate=September 26, 2013}}</ref> *2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, winner, ''Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher''<ref name=bl2013>{{cite book|url=http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=6266887&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |title=Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction|via=Booklistonline.com|author=Bill Ott|date=June 30, 2013|accessdate=March 17, 2014}}</ref><ref name=lj2013>{{cite web|url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/07/ala/2013-andrew-carnegie-medals-for-excellence-in-fiction-and-nonfiction-ala-2013|title=2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction|work=Library Journal|author=Annalisa Pesek|date=July 3, 2013|accessdate=March 17, 2014}}</ref><ref name=pw2013>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/56920-ala-unveils-2013-finalists-for-andrew-carnegie-medals.html|title=ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals|work=Publishers Weekly|date=April 22, 2013|accessdate=March 17, 2014}}</ref> *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.''<ref>Moore, Ninah. [https://rusaupdate.org/2024/01/2024-notable-books-list-announced-years-best-in-fiction-nonfiction-and-poetry/ 2024 Notable Books List Announced: Year’s Best in Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry.] January 20, 2024.</ref>
==Writings== *{{cite book|isbn=0-394-57724-8|title=The Good Rain|year=1990|url=https://archive.org/details/goodrainthe00timo|last1=Egan|first1=Timothy|publisher=Knopf }} *{{cite book|isbn=0-394-58819-3 |title=Breaking Blue|year=1992|last1=Egan|first1=Timothy|publisher=Knopf }} *{{cite book|title=Lasso the Wind|isbn=0-375-40024-9|year=1998|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/lassowindawayto00egan|last1=Egan|first1=Timothy|publisher=Knopf }} *{{cite book|isbn=1-4000-4099-X|title=The Winemaker's Daughter|year=2004|url=https://archive.org/details/winemakersdaught00egan|last1=Egan|first1=Timothy|publisher=Knopf }} *{{cite book|title= The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2006|isbn=978-0-618-77347-3}} *{{cite book|isbn=978-0-618-96841-1|title=The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America|year=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/bigburnteddyroos00egan|last1=Egan|first1=Timothy|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt }} *{{cite book |isbn=978-0-618-96902-9 |title=Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis |year=2012 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shortnightsofsha0000egan |last1=Egan |first1=Timothy |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt }} * ''The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero''. 2016. {{ISBN|9780544272880}} *{{cite book|title=A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith|year= 2019|isbn= 978-0735225237|last1= Egan|first1= Timothy|publisher= Penguin}} *{{cite book|title=A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them|year=2023|isbn=978-0735225268|last1= Egan|first1= Timothy|publisher=Penguin }}
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==External links== {{Sister project links}} *{{C-SPAN|20393}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Egan, Timothy}} Category:Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners Category:National Book Award winners Category:Living people Category:University of Washington alumni Category:Writers from Seattle Category:The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winners Category:1954 births