Awards
- 1959, 1960 Ingram-Merrill awards
- 1965 Faulkner prize for a first novel for The Orchard Keeper
- 1965 Traveling Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship for creative writing
- 1981 MacArthur Fellowship
- 1992 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses
- 2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and Believer Book Award for The Road
- 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road
- 2008 Premio Ignotus for The Road
- 2008 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, for a career whose writing "possesses qualities of excellence, ambition, and scale of achievement over a sustained career which place him or her in the highest rank of American literature."
- 2012 Best of the James Tait Black, shortlist, The Road
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