By 1933, when inhabitants in the Southern Plains were struggling against violent dust storms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was beginning his first presidential term. People on the southern Great Plains did not feel the impact as quickly as those in the cities, but by the 1930s, they were more harshly impacted by economic deprivation due to the droughts and subsequent dust storms that made it impossible to farm. On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed, initiating the Great Depression. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife, the journalist Joni Balter. Egan has received honorary doctorates from Willamette University, Whitman College, Lewis and Clark College, and Western Washington University. Egan has covered stories specific to the American West, stories on the deterioration of rural America, and a report for which he retraced the path that Lewis and Clark followed during their western expedition. In 2001, he and several other Times reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for the 15-part series, “How Race Is Lived in America,” published in 2000. Currently, he writes a weekly column for The New York Times entitled “The Opinionator,” in which he writes about politics and current events from a progressive perspective. He began his career with the newspaper as its Pacific Northwest correspondent, and then he became a national enterprise reporter-a journalist who develops original stories for a publication. For the past eighteen years, he has worked as a reporter for The New York Times. The experience laid the foundation for his first novel, published in 2004, The Winemaker’s Daughter. In 1997, he moved to Italy with his family and fell in love with its history and wine culture. In the 1980s he wrote for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and then quit his reporting job to write his first novel.
After seven years and a series of odd jobs, he graduated from the University of Washington. Timothy Egan is a third-generation Westerner and one of nine children.
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