Awards
- Putnam Creative Writing Award from Barnard College, 1952
- National Catholic Book Award from Catholic Press Association, 1971, for Divine Disobedience: Profiles in Catholic Radicalism
- Front Page Award from Newswomen's Club of New York, 1972, for Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress
- LL.D.
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- City University of New York, 1981
- Oberlin College, 1985
- University of Santa Clara, 1985
- St. Mary's College of California
- University of Hartford
- Guggenheim fellow 1991-92
- National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, 2006, for Them: A Memoir of Parents.
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