Recognition
- Recipient of an Emmy Award for media criticism.
- His script on the 50th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's solo crossing of the Atlantic was reprinted in the first few editions of the journalism text Writing News for Broadcast, published by the Columbia University Press. "Burns writes with style," said author Charles Bliss, Jr. "You know an artist is at work from the first line."
- Was named by the Washington Journalism Review (now the American Journalism Review) as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism.
- The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol was named one of the one of the best academic press books of 2003 by the American Library Association.
- Won the Eudora Welty Emerging Playwrights Competition in 2010 for his first play, Mid-Strut.
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Famous quotes containing the word recognition:
“Admiration. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.””
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)