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== Awards and honors ==
*1966 – ''[[Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger]]'' (essay category) for ''The Painted Bird''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Meilleur+livre+%C3%A9tranger|title=Meilleur livre étranger {{!}} Book awards {{!}} LibraryThing|website=www.librarything.com|access-date=February 2, 2017|archive-date=December 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225191804/http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Meilleur+livre+%C3%A9tranger|url-status=live}}</ref>
*1969 – [[National Book Award]] for ''Steps''.<ref name=nba1969>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1969 "National Book Awards – 1969"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028064852/http://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1969/ |date=October 28, 2018 }}. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-28. <br/>(with essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog)</ref>
*1970 – Award in Literature, [[National Institute of Arts and Letters]] and [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]
*1973–75 – President of the American Chapter of P.E.N. Re-elected 1974, serving the maximum permitted two terms
*1974 – B'rith Shalom Humanitarian Freedom Award
*1977 – [[American Civil Liberties Union]] First Amendment Award
*1979 – [[Writers Guild of America, East]] Best Screenplay Award for ''Being There'' (shared with screenwriter [[Robert C. Jones]])
*1980 – Polonia Media Perspectives Achievement Award
*1981 – [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] (BAFTA) Best Screenplay of the Year Award for ''Being There''
*International House Harry Edmonds Life Achievement Award
*Received PhD Honoris Causa in Hebrew Letters from [[Spertus College of Judaica]]
*1988 – Received PhD Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from [[Albion College]], Michigan
*1989 – Received PhD Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from [[State University of New York at Potsdam]]