Awards
- 1981, National Poetry Series award, for The Incognito Lounge
- 1983, The Frost Place poet in residence
- 1986, Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2002, Aga Khan Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review, for Train Dreams
- 2007, National Book Award for Tree of Smoke (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize)
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