Timothy Egan found the perfect heroine. Madge Oberholtzer didn’t set out to take down the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and her story is a tragic one, but her sacrifice helped destroy a movement ...

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we’re wrapping up "The Good Rain" by Timothy Egan. I'm your club guide, Katie Campbell.

These questions hover over Timothy Egan’s excellent new work of narrative nonfiction. “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them ...

Egan, who grew up in Spokane and lives in Seattle, is the author of 10 books. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 with a team of New York Times reporters for its series ...

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, ...