Honors and Awards
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Fiction, 1976
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, 1977
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, twice
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, twice
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