Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

11 years of winners · Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation · Since 2006 · ← Back to award page


2025	The Burning Earth: A History of Fire and Humanity	Sunil Amrith	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2024	Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street	Victor Luckerson	Random House
2023	His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice	Robert Samuels	Viking
2022	How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America	Clint Smith	Little, Brown
2021	When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains	Ariana Neumann	Scribner
2020	Know My Name	Chanel Miller	Viking
2019	Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist	Eli Saslow	Doubleday
2018	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy	Ta-Nehisi Coates	One World
2017	What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars	David Wood	Little, Brown
2016	Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War	Susan Southard	Viking
2015	Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption	Bryan Stevenson	Spiegel & Grau