Timothy Egan

Timothy Egan is an American author and journalist who was once an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He is best known for The Worst Hard Time, about people who lived through the Dust Bowl, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His other books include The Big Burn, about the 1910 fire that helped shape the Forest Service, and A Fever in the Heartland, published in 2023. He lives in Seattle.