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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 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". He currently lives in Seattle and contributes opinion columns as the paper's Pacific Northwest correspondent.
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.
Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His most widely known documentaries are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Central Park Five (2012), and The Roosevelts (2014). Also widely known is his role as executive producer of The West (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).
Burns's documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Burns was born on July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. According to his website, Ken Burns's brother is the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns. He is a distant relative of poet Robert Burns.
Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Timothy Egan and legendary PBS documentarian Ken Burns discuss the film and the historical impact of The Dust Bowl.
Author Timothy Egan talks about his book Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. In it, Egan focuses on Curtis's mission to capture photographs of the disappearing native cultures and people in the United States.
FIND PART 2 HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovA8bVJdAk AWARD WINNING AUTHOR TIMOTHY EGAN HAS WRITTEN A MESMERIZING NEW BOOK "THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN" ABOUT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER - THIS IS PART 1 OF EGAN'S PRESENTATION AT THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON MARCH 7, 2016.
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Timothy Egan is a third generation Westerner, one of seven children in a family of modest means, who grew up feeling rich because of the wealth of experience they enjoyed in the mountains and forests of Washington, Idaho and Montana. Public lands are our birthright as American citizens. The challenge now is to get young people to feel a close, personal attachment to our natural world.
A new biography, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis," pays tribute to the Seattle photographer. KPLU's Erin Hennessey walked around Seattle's Pioneer Square with author Timothy Egan to see where Curtis took some of his early photos, including his first portrait of an American Indian, Princess Angeline, the last surviving child of Chief Seattle.
An interview with writer Timothy Egan, author of Worst Hard Time and The Big Burn
On March 5, 2014, the UCSB Library hosted this one-hour interview and Q&A; with Timothy Egan, author of the 2014 UCSB Reads book, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America." For the first 20 minutes, Egan was interviewed by UCSB History Professor John Majewski and then he took questions from a live online audience.
The dust storms that terrorized America's high plains in the darkest years of the depression were like nothing ever seen before. The story of the survivors is told in the book, "The Worst Hard Times" and we visit with the Pulitizer Prize winning author.
WMUR Political Scoop's Timothy Egan interviews Timothy Egan of the NH Production Coalition.
Timothy Egan, Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction winner, speaks with Booklist magazine's Brad Hooper about his award-winning book, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.
Timothy Egan reads the opening to his new book, The Big Burn, as part of an interview with Nick O'Connell, editor of The Writer's Workshop Review. The complete interview with Timothy Egan will be featured in the upcoming issue of The Writer's Workshop Review.
Tim Egan Interview by Chris Bell, February 8th, 2012
Get your free copy of this audiobook: http://hotaudiobook.com/mabk/30/en/B01ETUCA86/download Summary of The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan | Includes Analysis Preview: Timothy Egan's The Immortal Irishman is a biography of Thomas Meagher: Irish revolutionary, convict, and Civil War general. The book also offers a broad portrait of the experiences of the Irish during the period, both at home and abroad. Meagher was born in 1823 into a prominent and wealthy Catholic family. This gave him the advantages of education and standing. At the same time, Catholics in Ireland were brutally oppressed, with limits on landholding, political representation, and religion. Meagher was an outspoken opponent of British oppression and British rule and became known for his stirring and fiery oratory. Meaghe...
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The awesome Tim Egan does a song written and performed by singer-songwriter James Taylor! With Lightning Tom on electric!
Timothy Egan, author of The Worst Hard Time and The Big Burn talks at Whitworth University on April 13, 2014 as part of Hope in Hard Times at the Spokane County Library District.
Journalist and author Timothy Egan appears at the 2010 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Timothy Egan has worked for The New York Times for 18 years - as Pacific Northwest correspondent and as a national enterprise reporter. In 2001 he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that wrote the series "How Race Is Lived in America." He is the author of several books, including "The Worst Hard Time," a history of the Dust Bowl, for which he won the National Book Award, and most recently, "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which details the Great Fire of 1910 that burned about 3 million acres and helped shape the U.S. Forest Service. Egan lives in Washington state.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, reporter and historian delivers a Teach-In lecture on the horrors of the Dust Bowl.