A Native American author whose work highlighted his culture and its traditions is this year's winner of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature's power to foster peace and understanding.
Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials selected novelist, poet and essayist N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian who earned the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with "House Made of Dawn." The book has been credited with leading a renaissance in Native American literature. Past winners include Studs Terkel, John Irving and Elie Wiesel.