Timothy Egan

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Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize winning author who resides in Seattle, Washington. He currently contributes opinion columns to The New York Times as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent.

In addition to his work with The New York Times, he has written six books, including The Good Rain, Breaking Blue, and Lasso the Wind.

Most recently he wrote "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" which details the Great Fire of 1910 that burned about three million acres and helped shape the United States Forest Service. The book also details some of the political issues of the time focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot.

The Worst Hard Time, a non-fiction account of those who lived through The Great Depression's Du...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 11,670 ratings · 2,502 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl 4.01 avg rating — 8,736 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America 3.95 avg rating — 2,131 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures) 4.15 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West 4.03 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Breaking Blue 3.77 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Winemaker's Daughter 3.03 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Long Darkness: Surviving the Great American Dust Bowl 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Portrait of Seattle by Timothy Egan, Charles Krebs (Illustrations) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	The Big Burn - Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.”
― Timothy Egan

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“Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.”
― Timothy Egan, The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest

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