Timothy P. Egan (born November 8, 1954) is an American author, journalist, and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times.

His first book, The Good Rain, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in 1991.

His book on the photographer Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, won the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence for nonfiction.

[8] In 2001, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series to which Egan contributed, "How Race is Lived in America".

[9][10] In 2023 his book about how the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer helped undo the rising KKK tide in the U.S.[11]