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American historian Stephen Ambrose has been selected to receive the 29th annual Saint Louis Literary Award, sponsored by the Associates of Saint Louis University Libraries.
Ambrose joins an impressive list of past winners, including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Tom Wolfe, Shelby Foote, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee.
"The winner of this award is chosen on the basis of the body of his or her work," said Bernice Shepherd, executive secretary of the Associates of Saint Louis University Libraries. Shepherd described the list of past winners as a veritable Who's Who of American Literature. The award has been presented for 30 years.
Ambrose will receive the award at a ceremony in Busch Memorial Center on Oct. 8. The program, including a talk by Ambrose, is free and open to the public.
Ambrose, professor of history at the University of New Orleans, has written multi-volume biographies of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He prepared to write his most recent historical work, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, by journeying along the Lewis and Clark Trail for more than 20 years, studying the explorers' journals by the light of campfires with his family and students.