Honors and Awards
- 2012 Harvard University Massey Lecturer
- 2011 Massachusetts Book Prize winner
- 2009 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member
- 2006 PBS American Masters Program on the American Novel, featured writer
- 2003 Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2003 Fulbright Fellowship to the People's Republic of China
- 2001 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
- 1999 Best American Short Stories of the Century (John Updike, ed.)
- 1999 Lannan Literary Award
- 1995 Best American Short Stories of 1995
- 1992 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- 1991 National Book Critics' Circle Award Finalist
- 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1988 Best American Short Stories of 1988
- 1986 Radcliffe College Bunting Institute Fellowship
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