Awards and Honors
- 1958 – Crazy in Berlin assigned as reading in college courses of Contemporary American Literature and in courses in Creative Writing
- 1962 – Dial fellowship for outstanding work in progress on Little Big Man
- 1965 – Western Heritage Award, and Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, both for Little Big Man
- 1982 – Ohioana Book Award for Reinhart's Women
- 1984 – Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Feud
- 1986 – Litt.D., Long Island University