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Geraldine Brooks' 'Horse' and biography of George Floyd win Dayton literary awards

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Geraldine Brooks' 鈥淗orse,鈥 a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's 鈥淗is Name Is George Floyd: One Man鈥檚 Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice鈥 have won awards from the Dayton Literary P
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This cover image released by Viking shows "His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Justice" by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, which won an award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation. (Viking via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Geraldine Brooks' 鈥淗orse,鈥 a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels' and Toluse Olorunnipa's 鈥淗is Name Is George Floyd: One Man鈥檚 Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice鈥 have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation.

The awards were announced Tuesday by the Dayton foundation, which honors a book of fiction and of nonfiction for using 鈥渢he power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.鈥 Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her novel 鈥淢arch,鈥 while 鈥淗is Name Is George Floyd鈥 was

On Tuesday, Lily Brooks-Dalton's 鈥淭he Light Pirate鈥 was the runner-up for the Dayton fiction prize, and Adam Hochschild's World War I-era history 鈥淎merican Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy鈥檚 Forgotten Crisis鈥 was runner-up for nonfiction.

Previous winners include Viet Thanh Nguyen's 鈥淭he Sympathizer,鈥 Ta-Nehisi Coates' 鈥淲e Were Eight Years in Power鈥 and Chanel Miller's 鈥淜now My Name.鈥

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This story has been updated to correct the title of Adam Hochschild鈥檚 World War I-era history to 鈥淎merican Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy鈥檚 Forgotten Crisis鈥, not 鈥淭he Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy鈥檚 Forgotten Crisis.鈥

The Associated Press