Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

by Timothy Egan. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

About

Popular historian Egan turns the life and work of master photographer Edward Curtis into a gripping and heroic story of one man’s commitment to the three-decade project that ultimately resulted in The North American Indian, a 20-volume collection of words and pictures documenting the Native American peoples of the American West.

Awards Won

Title Year
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Gold round Medal depicting a winged horse) Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.

2013 - Finalist(s)