Egan has written seven books . His first , '' 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 . '' The Big Burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America '' ( 2009 ) is about the Great Fire of 1910 , which burned about three million acres ( 12,000 km ² ) and helped shape the United States Forest Service . The book describes some of the political issues facing Theodore Roosevelt . For this work he won a second Washington State Book Award in History/Biography and a second Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
Great Fire of 1910
Great Fire of 1910
Timothy Egan