The jury for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced its list of finalists this month and All Else Failed is one of six finalists for the nonfiction prize.
According to the prize committee, "The Dayton Literary Peace Prize, inaugurated in 2006, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize invites nominations in adult fiction and nonfiction books published within the past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view."
Last year's nonfiction award went to Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice. The runner-up was Adam Hochschild, author of American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.
And, yes, I'm very happy.
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