Seattle writer Timothy Egan’s most recent book, “A Fever in the Heartland,” tells the story of the rise of the Klan in the 1920s and the leader who was brought down by one woman’s deathbed ...

"I used to be a connoisseur of stories about young, doomed geniuses," says Timothy Egan at The New York Times ... "Writers are a tough call. For every J.D. Salinger, who published The Catcher ...