Honors
- 2000 Whiting Writers Award
- 2002 MacArthur Fellowship
- 2007 Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars Fellowship
For The Intuitionist
- Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award
- Finalist, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
For John Henry Days
- Young Lions Fiction Award
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize
- Finalist, National Book Critics Circle
- Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize
For Apex Hides the Hurt
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
For Sag Harbor
- Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- Finalist, Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
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