Egan worked as a national correspondent and opinion columnist for the New York Times, roaming the West. His book on Edward Curtis, SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER, was awarded the Carnegie Award for best nonfiction. His account of the Dust Bowl, THE WORST HARD TIME, won the 2006 National Book Award, considered one of the nation’s highest literary honors, and he was featured prominently in the 2012 Ken Burns film on the Dust Bowl.Ī lifelong journalist, Mr. THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN was a New York Times bestseller. His last book, A PILGRIMAGE TO ETERNITY, was very personal, an adventure on an ancient pilgrimage trail through the heart of Europe, the Via Francigena - a journey, a family story, and a history of Christianity. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it “a harrowing look at forgotten chapter in American history.” It’s a book that explains the madness of our times with a look back at a hundred years ago. “Brisk” “Powerful” and “Gripping,” wrote the Times.

His most recent, A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND, is a historical thriller that was an immediate New York Times bestseller. He worked on a farm, in a factory, and at a fast-food outlet while muddling through nearly seven on-and-off years of college. (Oct.Timothy Egan comes from a family of nine, from a mother who loved books and a father with the Irish gift of finding joy in small things. With a reporter’s eye for detail, Egan delivers a gracefully written biography and adventure story. Egan portrays the dwindling tribes, their sacred rites (such as the Hopi snake dance), customs, and daily lives, and captures a larger-than-life cast.

Unfailingly sympathetic to his subject, Egan shadows Curtis as he travels from Roosevelt’s summer home at Sagamore Hill to the mesas and canyons of the Southwest tribes and to the rain forests of the Coastal Indians and the isolated tundra on Nunivak Island. Morgan and culminated in a critically acclaimed 20-volume set, The North American Indian, which took Curtis 30 years to complete and left him divorced and destitute. Yet in 1900, at the height of his fame, Curtis gave it up to pursue what would become his life’s work-“a plan to photograph all the intact Native American tribes left in North America” before their ways of life disappeared. In the late 19th century, Edward Curtis was the era’s reigning portrait photographer, so well respected that President Theodore Roosevelt chose him to photograph his daughter’s wedding. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Egan (The Worst Hard Time) turns his attention to one of Seattle’s most remarkable-yet all but forgotten-residents.

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