Timothy Egan is the Pacific Northwest correspondent for The New York Times and the author of The Good Rain, Lasso the Wind, and The Winemaker's Daughter. His first book, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991. For The Worst Hard Time, a 2006 book about people who lived through the Great Depression's Dust Bowl, he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. Egan lives in Seattle.