Awards and Honors
- 1966 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories (1965)
- 1966 – National Book Award for The Collected Stories (1965)
- 1967 – Gold Medal Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Three nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2006 – Porter was featured on a United States postage stamp issued May 15, 2006. She was the 22nd person featured in the Literary Arts commemorative stamp series.
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