Nomination Deadline
June 10, 2008

2008 Awards Ceremony

September 28, 2008
Benjamin and Marian Schuster
Performing Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio

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2008 nomination
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    2007 Award Winners


Fiction Winner
Brad Kessler
Birds In Fall


Fiction Runner-up
Lisa Fugard
Skinner’s Drift

Nonfiction Winner
Mark Kurlansky
Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea

Nonfiction Runner-up
Greg Mortenson and
David Oliver Relin
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time



2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
 

Taylor Branch, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy America in the King Years is widely considered the definitive history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement, will accept the special Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement at a ceremony in Dayton, Ohio on September 28, 2008. Previous Lifetime Achievement honorees include authors Studs Terkel and Elie Wiesel.
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 Taylor Branch, 2008 Lifetime Award Winner

Taylor Branch

2008 Finalist Judges

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Katherine Vaz


 
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