Book Award winner Egan to be honored by city

[flamingyouth]

Seattle writer Timothy Egan's surprise garnering of the National Book Award last week will be celebrated at a special civic salute next month that will be led by Mayor Greg Nickels.

The event includes a talk by Egan and a reading from his winning non-fiction book on the American Dust Bowl, "The Worst Hard Time."

The Egan salute will take place at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 13 in the main auditorium of Seattle's Central Library. There will be a free reception with refreshments after the talk.

Egan, a 52-year-old national enterprise reporter for The New York Times, is the first Seattle writer to win a National Book Award since Charles Johnson took the 1990 fiction prize for "Middle Passage."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/293035_tf221.html

[pscot]

1. It's an amazing story

and Egan gets most of it from the people who lived through it. It's compelling stuff. I got it as a birthday present, but you can likely find it at the library. It's history with a very human perspective. And there are some lessons in there too, if anyone gives a damn.

[flamingyouth]

2. Yeah, it's a great book

I was thrilled to hear he'd received this very prestigious honor. :thumbsup:

[pscot]

3. Native son makes good

Joel Connely gave Egan a nice write-up in yesterday's PI.