After earning a PhD from Harvard, and while a professor on staff there, Cedric Whitman wrote the book, Homer and the Heroic Tradition, which won him a Nobel Peace Prize in literature.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. 
