Timothy Egan: Portland Arts & Lectures 2024–25
$115–$450 (five-part series)
This event is part of our 40th anniversary season of Portland Arts & Lectures. A subscription to the five-part series is required to attend this event.
Timothy Egan is an American journalist and author of ten books. The most recent, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, was an immediate New York Times bestseller. Egan worked for The New York Times for 18 years, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, and then as a national enterprise reporter. As part of a team of reporters Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2001 for writing a series called How Race is Lived in America. Egan lives in Seattle with his family.
Praise:
For A Fever in the Heartland:
“[A] harrowing look at a forgotten chapter of American history.” —Publishers Weekly
“With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history. . . . A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly resonant today.” —David Grann, author of The Wager and Killers of the Flower Moon
“Egan is a meticulous researcher and, perhaps especially, a skilled storyteller. His reconstruction of Stephenson’s deplorable arc – his lie-fueled rise, his vile charisma, his ultimate fall – is a master class in the tools of narrative nonfiction: high stakes, ample suspense and sweeping historical phenomena made vivid through the dramatic actions of individual villains and heroes.” —The Washington Post
For The Big Burn:
“For as long as Egan keeps chasing storms, whether of dust, fire, rain or snow, you’d be smart to call shotgun.” —The Los Angeles Times
