Awards and Honors
- 1958 – National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature
- 1958 – Guggenheim fellowship
- 1961 – Ford Foundation grant
- 1962 – Guggenheim fellowship
- 1985 – On Glory's Course nominated for PEN-Faulkner Award
- Rockefeller Foundation grant
- 1993 – Morton Dauwen Zabel Fiction award from American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1996 – Ohioana Career Award from the Ohioana Library Association