Awards and Accolades
- Rhodes Scholarship, 1970
- Lannan Foundation Fellowship, 1997
- National Magazine Award, 1987, 1994, 2005
- New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1997
- Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1996
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1988
- BP Natural World Book Prize (Great Britain), 1996
- John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, 1997
- PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay for The Boilerplate Rhino, 2001
- Honorary doctorate from Montana State University (2000) and Colorado College (2009)
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