Timothy Egan

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, popular columnist, and National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan is an acclaimed writer and veteran chronicler of the West whose interests range wide across the American landscape and American history. Egan is the author of several books, including The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the 2009 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. The Big Burn is also the inspiration for a new documentary also titled The Big Burn on The American Experience (PBS) in early 2015. Egan’s book The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, a work Walter Cronkite called "can’t-put-it-down history," won the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction. Egan is featured prominently in Ken Burns' acclaimed 2012 film, The Dust Bowl.

His most recent book, a "riveting biography" (Boston Globe) of the famous photographer of American Indians, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward S. Curtis, was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The Wall Street Journal said, "Egan fills his chronicle with bright turns of phrase and radiant descriptions, making both places and people come alive...A sweeping tale about two vanishing ways of life." His weekly online column for The New York Times, the popular "Opinionator," is consistently among the most read pieces on the New York Times site. (strongstuff)… (més)

Join Cindi and discuss books from a variety of genres at 7 pm, the first Monday of each month. Authors DO NOT Attend.

Monday, April 6, 7pm

Short nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

In 1900, Edward Curtis gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes.

Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Read and discuss a variety of books exploring how to create a more civil and engaged community.Join Mary Dumas on the third Wednesday of the month from noon to 1:30. Authors DO NOT attend. Meetings are in the Readings Gallery -- brown bag lunches are encouraged. Anyone interested in exploring their role as an engaged citizen is welcome.

Wednesday, September 14, noon

Short nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

In 1900, Edward Curtis gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes.

Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

The Hickory Stick Bookshop Book Club's next meeting: Monday, April 14th @ 6:30 pm We will be discussing Short nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan ---------------------------------------- Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. 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. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian. ====================== "A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan's spirited biography might just bring Curtis the recognition that eluded him in life." -- Washington Post "A darn good yarn. Egan is a muscular storyteller and his book is a rollicking page-turner with a colorfully drawn hero." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A riveting biography of an American original." - Boston Globe ------------------------------------------- Questions? Please call 860-868-0525.

Location: Street: 2 Green Hill Road City: Washington Depot, Province: Connecticut Postal Code: 06794 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Book Group In The Worst Hard Time, 2006 winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Timonthy Egan utilizes first person accounts to take the reader through the rise and fall of America's High Plains, brought on by the worst dust storms in our history. (afegit de Barnes & Noble)… (més)

Timothy Egan debat Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Seating is on a space-available basis. Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, and famous—and a passionate mountaineer—until he gave it all up in 1900 to capture the Native American nation on film before it disappeared. In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the untold story behind Curtis’ iconic photographs, his struggles to document more than 80 tribes, and his tremendous perseverance (it took Curtis six years to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony). The undertaking changed Curtis profoundly; he would die penniless in Hollywood—but the charming rogue’s adventure created one of America’s most stunning cultural achievements. About the author Timothy Egan worked for The New York Times for 18 years – as Pacific Northwest correspondent and 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.” He writes a weekly column, "Outposts," for the New York Times. (TPLevents)… (més)