Recognition
- General Nonfiction Award: National Book Critics Circle for The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, 1976
- Anisfield-Wolf Race Relations Award, 1978
- National Endowment for the Arts Writers Award, 1980
- National Book Award for General Nonfiction for China Men, 1981
- National Endowment for the Arts Writers Award, 1982
- PEN West Award in fiction for Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, 1989
- Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Literary Awards, 2006
- Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, 2008
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