Selected Awards and Honors
- 2013 Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award
- Erwin Piscator Honorary Award, 2013
- Barbara Goldsmith received the honor of becoming a New York “Living Landmark” for all she has written and accomplished. This honor also has been presented to Brooke Astor, Jessye Norman, Charlie Rose, Beverly Sills, and Barbara Walters among others. November 2008.
- On May 11, 2009 Goldsmith was honored before 1,000 people at a Lincoln Center ceremony by Literacy Partners for her Lifetime Achievements in the Arts.
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected to make her a member of this distinguished body founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock. April 15, 2000.
- Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Literary Achievements, 2007
- Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie won the single prize for the “best book on physics written by a non-physicist” from the thirteen affiliated societies of the American Institute of Physics.
- Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit medal from the Republic of Poland for her contribution to Polish culture, 2009.
- National Archives Award, also presented to Kenneth Burns, for contributions to American History.
- The New York Public Library honored Goldsmith as a Literary Lion with a group including Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe among others.
- The New York State Council on the Arts.
- Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Presidential Commission on Preservation and Access.
- Emmy for the CBS special “Bacall and the Boys”.
- Two television Emmys as writer and executive producer for Little Gloria…Happy At Last.
- Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, 1998.
- Presidential Citation from William Jefferson Clinton, July 15, 1998.
- Presidential appointment to the eight person Presidential Commission for the Celebration of Women in American History, 1999.
- New York Times notable books.
- Association of American Publishers best non-fiction award.
- Boston Globe best book of the year.
- New York University Presidential Citation, 1993.
- The Brandeis Library Trust Award for outstanding writing.
- The Guild Hall Lifetime Literary Achievement Award.
- Poets & Writers “Writers for Writers” Award, 1999.
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