Awards
- 1959 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1959 National Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award
- 1964 National Book Award for Fiction
- 1965 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
- 1966 O. Henry Prize
- 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 1982 National Book Award for Fiction (hardcover)
- 1982 Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award
- 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
- 1984 National Arts Club Medal of Honor
- 1987 St. Louis Literary Award
- 1987 Ambassador Book Award
- 1987 Helmerich Award, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.
- 1988 PEN/Malamud Award
- 1989 National Medal of Arts
- 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
- 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 1991 O. Henry Prize
- 1992 Honorary Doctor of Letters from Harvard University
- 1995 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1995 Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 1997 Ambassador Book Award
- 1998 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation
- 2003 National Humanities Medal
- 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- 2005 Man Booker International Prize nominee
- 2006 Rea Award for the Short Story
- 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction
- 2008 Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2008 Jefferson Lecture
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