Memberships and Awards
Boyle's book, Arc of Justice, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Boyle has also won a number of honors and fellowships. He has twice been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, in 1996 and 2001, as well as a Fulbright scholar (1997), a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (2001) and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Boyle was invited to be an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer for 2006-2007.
Boyle sits on the advisory board for the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State University. He also is a member of the editorial board for Labor History and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
Boyle is also a member of the Society of American Historians and the PEN American Center.
Boyle was honored by the Detroit City Council for The Sweet Trials, a play based on Arc of Justice.
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