Timothy Egan
Author · 14 books
Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author of nine books, including THE WORST HARD TIME, which won the National Book Award. His latest book, A PILGRIMAGE TO ETERNITY, is a personal story, a journey over an ancient trail, and a history of Christianity. He also writes a biweekly opinion column for The New York Times. HIs book on the photographer Edward Curtis, SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER, won the Carnegie Medal for best nonfiction. His Irish-American book, THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN, was a New York Times bestseller. A third-generation native of the Pacific Northwest, he lives in Seattle.
Books
Fight of the Century
Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
2020
The Photographs of Ben Shahn
The Library of Congress
2008
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
2019
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
2023
The Immortal Irishman
The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
2016
A Path to the World
2022
The Good Rain
Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
1990
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
2011
Lasso the Wind
Away to the New West
1998
Breaking Blue
1992
The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
2009
The Worst Hard Time
The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
2005
The Long Darkness
2006
The Winemaker's Daughter
2004
