Awards and Honors
E.L. Doctorow has won many awards for particular works.
For his body of work and other personal honors, he received:
- 1998 National Humanities Medal, one of nine people selected that year by President Clinton in consultation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- 1998 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award from the Tulsa Library Trust
- 2012 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, winner
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