Harold Courlander - Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, and Honors

Courlander received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships during his lifetime, including:

• The Newbery Honor Book Award in 1948 for his book, The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories (with George Herzog)
• Guggenheim Fellowships and Grants in 1948, 1953, and 1958
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Grants for Anthropological Research in 1956, 1960, 1962, and 1970
• Franz Boas Fund Grant, 1939
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal Nomination for Contributions to Children's Literature in 1979
• American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" list in 1969 for his book, The African
• Parents' Choice "Remarkable" Award in 1982 for his book, The Crest and The Hide
• The Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Michigan in 1984
• Avery Hopwood Award in Drama, 1931
• Avery Hopwood Award in Literary Criticism, 1931
• Avery Hopwood Award in Literary Criticism, 1932
• American Philosophical Society grants-in-aid for work regarding Haiti and Africa, 1946, 1953, 1957
• The Viking Fund grant-in-aid for study of African-American folk music in southern U.S., 1949
• American Council of Learned Societies research and publication grants, 1939, 1940, 1953
• Ford Foundation publication grant, 1958
• American Library Association's "Notable Children's Books" list for The Son of the Leopard,1975
• American Library Association's "Notable Children's Books" list for The Crest and the Hide, 1982
• Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies for The Crest and the Hide, 1982