NEW YORK — Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which has set aside its longstanding rule that the winner accept the honor in person. His grandson, Jason Carter, will accept the prize on his behalf during a November ceremony that will …
DAYTON, Ohio — Federal prosecutors have decided against seeking the death penalty against a man charged in the shooting death of an Ohio police officer almost two years ago. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland notified the court and defendant Nathan Goddard that the United States “will not seek a sentence of death” in the slaying of Dayton police detective and …
CINCINNATI — Author Margaret Atwood thinks an American defiant streak is the country’s defense against the kind of nightmarish totalitarian future she depicts for the United States in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “I would bet on American orneriness and refusal to line up,” she told The Associated Press. “OK, you Americans, for the 40th time, out of the swimming pool!” Dayton …
Margaret Atwood, whose sweeping body of work includes “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a depiction of a nightmarish totalitarian future for the United States, is this year’s winner of a lifetime achievement award that celebrates literature’s power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding. Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize The Canadian writer and teacher has earned the Richard …
