Tom Wolfe - List of Awards

List of Awards

  • 1961 Washington Newspaper Guild Award for Foreign News Reporting
  • 1961 Washington Newspaper Guild Awards for Humor
  • 1970 Society of Magazine Writers Award for Excellence
  • 1971 D.F.A., Minneapolis College of Art
  • 1973 Frank Luther Mott Research Award
  • 1974 D.Litt., Washington and Lee University
  • 1977 Virginia Laureate for literature
  • 1980 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Right Stuff
  • 1980 Columbia Journalism Award for The Right Stuff
  • 1980 Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Institute of Arts and Letters
  • 1980 Art History Citation from the National Sculpture Society
  • 1983 L.H.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 1984 L.H.D., Southampton College
  • 1984 John Dos Passos Award
  • 1986 Gari Melchers Medal
  • 1986 Benjamin Pierce Cheney Medal from Eastern Washington University
  • 1986 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence
  • 1987 D.F.A., School of Visual Arts
  • 1988 L.H.D., Randolph-Macon College
  • 1988 L.H.D., Manhattanville College
  • 1989 L.H.D., Longwood College
  • 1990 St. Louis Literary Award
  • 1990 D.Litt., St. Andrews Presbyterian College
  • 1990 D.Litt., Johns Hopkins University
  • 1993 D.Litt., University of Richmond
  • 1998 Finalist for the National Book Award for A Man in Full
  • 2001 National Humanities Medal
  • 2003 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for Lifetime Achievement
  • 2004 Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the Literary Review
  • 2005 Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award
  • 2006 Jefferson Lecture in Humanities
  • 2010 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

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