Awards
- Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award as the best book of 2001 (for Killing Pablo)
- Finalist, National Book Award, 1999 (for Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War)
- Feature writing award from the Sunday Magazine Editors Association, 1987 (for "Finder's Keeper's")
- Science Writing Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980
- Finalist, best newspaper writing, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1979 (for "Life in the Projects")
- Winner, Maryland Library Association's Maryland Author Award for nonfiction writing, 2011 (for body of work)
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