Timothy Egan, a reporter for the New York Times, has won the fourth biennial TCU Texas Book Award for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner). The $5,000 award is sponsored by the Friends of the TCU Library and TCU Press.
The book has lassoed a range of awards: the 2006 National Book Award
for nonfiction, the Oklahoma Book Award and the Western Heritage
(Wrangler) Award from the national Cowboy Hall of Fame.
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Nominees for this year's Gumshoe Awards, given annually by Mystery Ink
to "recognize the best achievements in the world of crime fiction,"
are:
Best Mystery
- White Shadow by Ace Atkins
- City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
- The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
- All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh
- The Hard Way by Lee Child
- The Last Assassin by Barry Eisler
- Prayers of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
- Marked Man by William Lashner
- The Venus Fix by M.J. Rose
- The Dramatist by Ken Bruen
- A Walk in the Dark by Gianrico Carofiglio
- By a Slow River by Philippe Claudel
- When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum
- The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
- Out of Cabrini by Dave Case
- A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church
- King of Lies by John Hart
- The Shadow Catchers by Thomas Lakeman
- A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read