Įgan lives in Seattle, a third-generation Westerner. 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". For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. The book describes some of the political issues facing Theodore Roosevelt. 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 km 2) and helped shape the United States Forest Service. His book on the photographer Edward Curtis, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher," won the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence for nonfiction. 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. His first, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.
Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times, writing from a liberal perspective. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.Timothy P.
Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.Ĭurtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. Egan's spirited biography might just bring the recognition that eluded him in life." - The Washington PostĮdward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. "A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea.
New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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