Awards
- 1972-Fellow of New Jersey State Council on the Arts
- 1974-Rose Isabel Williams Foundation grant
- 1977-Ingram Merrill Foundation grant
- 1979-Fellow of National Endowment for the Arts
- 1981-Guggenheim fellowship
- 1981-CAPS grant
- 1981-PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- 1985-Fellow of National Endowment for the Arts How German Is It
- 1987-Fellow of German Academic Exchange Service
- 1987-MacArthur Fellows Program
- 1991-American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal for the Novel
- 1992-Lila Wallace- Reader's Digest Fund fellowship
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