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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-20-06 09:14 PM
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Book Award winner Egan to be honored by city
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
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 01:37 PM
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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.
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-21-06 07:55 PM
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2. Yeah, it's a great book
I was thrilled to hear he'd received this very prestigious honor. :thumbsup:
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 01:08 PM
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3. Native son makes good
Joel Connely gave Egan a nice write-up in yesterday's PI.
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