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Literary Voices 2010
Saturday, April 24, 6pm
UW Club
Dine at Literary Roundtables with authors
Timothy Egan, Keynote Speaker
Timothy Egan worked for 18 years as opinion columnist for The New York Times, first as the Pacific Northwest correspondent, then as a national enterprise reporter. In 2006, Egan won the National Book Award for his history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time. In 2001, he won the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters who wrote the series How Race Is Lived in America.
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