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