Keene Ann T. Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Oxford University Press, 1998. — 305 p.Here, in a single volume, are the profiles of all the individuals and organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since its establishment in 1901. From the creator of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, to Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, these individuals and organizations have devoted their lives to peace and have made our world a better place to live.
Ann Keene chronicles the moving stories of the winners of the Nobel Peace prize in 79 essays that focus on the activities that earned each person or organization the prize. She includes fascinating anecdotes about and quotations from the recipients and, at the same time, introduces readers to major events in world history.
Ann T. Keene was born in Chicago and educated at Swarthmore College and Indiana University. She writes and edits nonfiction for both children and adults, specializing in biography, and has taught writing and literature at Indiana University and George Mason University. Keene is the author of five previous books for young adults, including Earthkeepers: Observers and Protectors of Nature, also in the Oxford Profiles series. She is the editor of the Oxford American Children’s Encyclopedia (1998) and is a contributor to Oxford’s forthcoming American National Biography.