Awards and Honors

National Book Critics Circle Awards
The Professor of Desire, Fiction Finalist
The Ghost Writer, Fiction Finalist
The Anatomy of a Lesson , Fiction Finalist
The Counterlife, Fiction Winner
Patrimony: A True Story, Biography/Autobiography Winner
American Pastoral, Fiction Finalist

PEN/Faulkner Awards
Operation Shylock
The Human Stain
Everyman

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
American Pastoral

United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award
The Human Stain

Sidewise Award for Alternate History
The Plot Against America

Society of American Historians’ prize
The Plot Against America

PEN/Nabokov Award
Everyman

April 2007, received the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.