DAYTON, Ohio, July 19 (UPI) -- Famed Chicago author Louis "Studs" Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has won the inaugural Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
The 94-year-old writer, actor, radio interviewer and oral historian was honored in the non-fiction category and will receive the $10,000 prize at the Schuster Center in Dayton, Ohio Nov. 5.
"Certainly he has expressed his great pleasure in receiving the award," Sharon Rab, chairwoman for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, told the Dayton Daily News.
The literary prize grew out of the Dayton Peace Prize, which commemorates the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Balkan conflict and has been awarded to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, ambassador Richard Holbrooke, investor and philanthropist George Soros and South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Terkel's best known works include "Division Street: America," "Working," "Hard Times," and "The Great War."
