Awards & Honors
- Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (French award for best foreign work of fiction) for The Painted Bird
- 1969 – National Book Award for Steps.
- 1970 – Award in Literature, National Institute of Arts and Letters and American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- 1973–75 – President of the American Chapter of P.E.N. Re-elected 1974, serving the maximum permitted two terms.
- 1974 – B'rith Shalom Humanitarian Freedom Award.
- 1977 – American Civil Liberties Union First Amendment Award.
- 1979 – Writers Guild of America, East Best Screenplay Award for Being There (shared with screenwriter Robert C. Jones).
- 1980 – Polonia Media Perspectives Achievement Award.
- 1981 – British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Best Screenplay of the Year Award for Being There.
- International House Harry Edmonds Life Achievement Award.
- Received Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Hebrew Letters from Spertus College of Judaica.
- 1988 – Received Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from Albion College, Michigan.
- 1989 – Received Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from State University of New York at Potsdam.
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