Comments on: Meet the Author: Timothy Egan

By: Basil Indermill

Basil Indermill — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:46:15 +0000

Our family moved to Two Buttes, Colorado, in October, 1926. Kansas wheat farmers moved in and onewayed the beautiful Buffalo Grass in the fall of 1931. Dust started moving right off.
Our cattle were shot, too. In 1936, we moved
two hundred miles west to San Acacio, Colorado, and in the fall I started to school at the University in Boulder.
I really enjoyed the book, The Worst Of Hard Times, and played basketball with one of the boys from Walsh mentioned in the book.

By: Camille

Camille — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:15:30 +0000

This is not really a comment on Mr. Egan’s work, but a question. How can I obtain a copy of this interview. I am in a book club and I am to be the moderator for his book The Worst Hard Time. I think having this interview to refer to would be very helpful.

By: Tristen

Tristen — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:30:35 +0000

I was required to read this book for my university class and I expected it to be another boring, informational book that was full of facts. What I found, however, were many, many facts that were put into the book in a very creative way. I loved reading this book and learning about a time in history that I had never heard about before. It was very well written, a book that I would read in my free time!

By: John Peterlin, Jr.

John Peterlin, Jr. — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:18:27 +0000

Tim Egan’s story of the dust storms took me back to the time I was 11 years old growing up in Pueblo, Colorado. I recalled this in my biography. I remember the dust vividly and remember stuffing rags and newspapers around the window frames. Dust was everywhere every day, and some days you couldnt see anything two blocks away! Water and food was scarce in 1935 and so were jobs. My dad was out of work for a long time.The farmers east of Pueblo had a hard time too! Somehow the family pulled through, only to find WW II staring us in the face.I served in WW II at the tail end having graduated from high school in June 1944, and enlisting in the Army Air Corps.

By: Kati Corsaut

Kati Corsaut — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:41:35 +0000

I have Mr. Egan’s book sitting on my table, ready to read. I’ve enjoyed his previous books, especially “A Good Rain” and look forward to reading about the Dust Bowl. He is an exceptional writer as even this blog illustrates.