The Worst Hard Time

Timothy Egan (born November 8, 1954, in Seattle, Washington) is an American author, journalist, and former New York Times reporter and op-ed columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 as part of a team for national reporting on "How Race is Lived in America" NYT. A third-generation Westerner based in Seattle, he is a National Book Award winner for nonfiction, with notable works including The Worst Hard Time (2006) on the Dust Bowl, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher (2012) on Edward Curtis, A Fever in the Heartland (2023) on the KKK's rise and fall, and The Immortal Irishman (2016) Timothy Egan site.com. He has authored ten books chronicling American history, landscape, and experience, earning awards like the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.