A Selected Listing
Nobel Prize in Literature (Sweden), 1978 - Read acceptance speech.
Foreign Book Prize (France), 1965
Bancarella Prize (Italy), 1967
S.Y. Agnon Gold Medal (Israel), 1975
American Academy Grant, 1959
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1966
Newberry Honor Book Awards, 1968 & 1969
National Book Awards, 1970 & 1974
American Institute of Arts and Letters Arts and Letters Award in Literature, 1959
American Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Fiction, 1989
Louis Lamed Prize, 1950 & 1956
Epstein Fiction Award, 1963
Daroff Memorial Award, 1963
Edgar Allen Poe Award: Raven Award for Reader of the Year, 1983
Sacred Heart University Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, November 1978
Jersey City State College Honorary Doctor of Hunane Letters, June 1981
University of Central Florida Honorary Doctor of Letters, May 1986
Long Island University Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, June 1978
New York University Honorary Doctor of Letters, June 1980
Carnegie-Melon University Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, May 1978
University of Connecticut Honorary Doctor of Letters, May 1985