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Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author and journalist. 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〔 ("National Book Awards – 2006" ). National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012. (With blurbs and excerpt linked to his name.)〕〔 〕 and the Washington State Book Award in history/biography. 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".〔 ("National Reporting" ). ''Past winners & finalists by category''. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved March 24, 2012.〕〔 〕 He currently lives in Seattle and contributes opinion columns as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent. ==Books== Egan has written seven books including his National Book Award winner ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. His first, ''The Good Rain'', won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.〔 〕 ''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 also details some of the political issues focusing on Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. For that one he won a second Washington State Book Award in history/biography〔 〕 and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timothy Egan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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