Awards and Recognition
- 1985 Rosenthal Award of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1985 PEN/Hemingway Special Citation
- 1989 MacArthur Fellowship
- 1991 Time Magazine Book of the Year
- 1993 Finalist, National Book Award
- 1996 Swanlund Professorship, University of Illinois
- 1998 Business Week Best Business Books of 1998
- 1998 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999 James Fenimore Cooper Prize, American Society of Historians
- 1999 Lannan Literary Award
- 2000 Vursell Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 2000 Elected Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
- 2001 Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Centenary College
- 2001 Author of the Year, Illinois Association of Teachers of English
- 2003 Pushcart Prize
- 2003 Dos Passos Prize For Literature, Longwood University
- 2003 W. H. Smith Literary Award (Great Britain)
- 2004 Ambassador Book Award
- 2006 National Book Award for Fiction
- New York Times Notable Book, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1995, 1991
- Best Books of 2003: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsday, London Evening Standard, Time Out ( London), San Jose Mercury News
- Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 2003, 1995, 1991, 1985
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2006
- 2010 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters
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