Awards
- 1937 Little Brown Prize for Remembering Laughter
- 1945 Houghton-Mifflin Life-in-America Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for One Nation
- 1950–1951 Rockefeller fellowship to teach writers in the Far East
- 1953 Wenner-Gren Foundation grant
- 1956 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences fellowship
- 1967 Commonwealth Club Gold Medal for All the Little Live Things
- 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Angle of Repose
- 1976 Commonwealth Club Gold Medal for The Spectator Bird
- 1977 National Book Award for Fiction for The Spectator Bird
- 1980 Los Angeles Times Kirsch award for lifetime achievement
- 1990 P.E.N. Center USA West award for his body of work
- 1991 California Arts Council award for his body of work
- 1992 National Endowment for the Arts (refused)
Plus: Three O. Henry Awards, twice a Guggenheim Fellow (1949 and 1959), Senior Fellow of the National Institute of Humanities, member of National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters, member National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Encyclopedia of World Biography reports that the Little Brown prize was for "$2500, which at that time was a fortune. The book became a literary and financial success and helped gain Stegner position ... at Harvard."
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