Gloria Steinem, the iconic author whose writing and activism has helped shape modern feminism, received the 2015 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Gala. Coverage ranged from the AP and US News & World Report to Bustle and Adweek’s GalleyCat.
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize recognizes writers whose work demonstrates the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. Past recipients include Elie Wiesel and Studs Terkel. Launched in 2006,.it is an offshoot of the Dayton Peace Prize commemorating the 1995 peace accords ending the war in Bosnia, and is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States.
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