Awards
- Gold Medal, Commonwealth Club of California 1996
- California Arts Council Artists' Fellowship 1993
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1989
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1988
- PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award 1987
- Silver Medal, Commonwealth Club of California 1987
- Finalist, PEN/Faulkner Award 1987
- PEN Center USA West Award for Best Novel of 1987
- Shirley Collier Award in Fiction UCLA 1987
- American Council of Learned Societies Grant 1984
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 1975, 1979, 1980
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