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Awards and Honors
- 1964 – Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1965 – Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1967 – Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1968 – Ohioana Book of the Year Award for The Frontiersmen
- 1968 – Friends of American Writers (a Chicago-based national literary society) Award for Wild Season and The Frontiersmen
- 1968 – Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1970 – Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding program achievement (for Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom)
- 1970 – Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1972 – Newbery-Caldecott Honor Book Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill, American Library Association.
- 1975 – Recognition of Merit for Incident at Hawk's Hill, George C. Stone Center for Children's Books
- 1976 – Austrian Juvenile Book of the Year Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill
- 1985 – Honorary Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
- 1987 – Americanism Award, Daniel Boone Foundation
- 1987 – Second Annual Silver Arrow Humanitarian Award, Scioto Society
- 1987 – Commissioned as Kentucky Colonel, the highest honor conferred upon an honorary resident of that state by the Governor of Kentucky
- 1992 – Pulitzer Prize nomination
- 1997 – Recipient, Writer of the Year Award by the National Popular Culture Association
Sources: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001; the official international website of Allan W. Eckert.
