List of Awards
- 1961 Washington Newspaper Guild Award for Foreign News Reporting
- 1961 Washington Newspaper Guild Awards for Humor
- 1970 Society of Magazine Writers Award for Excellence
- 1971 D.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art
- 1973 Frank Luther Mott Research Award
- 1974 D.Litt., Washington and Lee University
- 1977 Virginia Laureate for literature
- 1980 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Right Stuff
- 1980 Columbia Journalism Award for The Right Stuff
- 1980 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1980 Art History Citation from the National Sculpture Society
- 1983 L.H.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
- 1984 L.H.D., Southampton College
- 1984 John Dos Passos Award
- 1986 Gari Melchers Medal
- 1986 Benjamin Pierce Cheney Medal from Eastern Washington University
- 1986 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence
- 1987 D.F.A., School of Visual Arts
- 1988 L.H.D., Randolph-Macon College
- 1988 L.H.D., Manhattanville College
- 1989 L.H.D., Longwood College
- 1990 St. Louis Literary Award
- 1990 D.Litt., St. Andrews Presbyterian College
- 1990 D.Litt., Johns Hopkins University
- 1993 D.Litt., University of Richmond
- 1998 Finalist for the National Book Award for A Man in Full
- 2001 National Humanities Medal
- 2003 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement
- 2004 Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the Literary Review
- 2005 Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award
- 2006 Jefferson Lecture in Humanities
- 2010 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
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