Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Recognition Award, American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1952 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1953 Kenyon Review Fiction Fellowship, 1956-57 First Rosenthal Award, American Academy, 1957 McGraw-Hill Fiction Fellowship, 1960 Donnelly Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College, 1962 Bellaman Award, 1968 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1983 Award of Merit Medal for the Short Story, American Academy, 1983 Election to the American Institute (now American Academy) of Arts & Letters, 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship in Literature Grant, 1988 Salem Award for Distinction in Letters, Salem College, 1992 John Dos Passos Award for Literature, 1992 1994 North Carolina Governor's Award for Literature, 1994 Charter Member Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1987; Vice- Chancellor. 1993-1997. 1997 J. William Corrington Award for fiction, Centenary College, Shreveport, LA 1997 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award for Fiction 1998 Fortner Award for Literature, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, N.C. 1999 Mississippi State Library Association Award for non-fiction 2001 Cleanth Brooks Medal for achievement awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers 2003 State of Mississippi--Life-time achievement award 2010 PEN/Malamude Award for the Short Story 2013 Rea Award for Short Ïiction