2004-2009 Fulbright Senior Specialist

 

2002 Fulbright Senior Lecturer to India: American Studies

 

1999 Finalist: Best Western Nonfiction: Western Writers of America

 

1995-2001, 2004 Steering Committee and Writing Mentor: PEN Prison   

Writing Program 

 

1994 Lecture Tour of Morocco: Sponsored by USIA and Moroccan          American Fulbright Commission

 

1977, 1979, 1990 Writer in Residence at The MacDowell Colony

 

1989 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

 

1989 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award: Creative Nonfiction

  

1986-87 Fulbright Senior Lecturer to India: American Studies

         

1983 The New York Public Library mounted a month-long exhibition at The Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture to honor my writing and research

 

1983 Finalist: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

 

1981 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

 

1980 Writer in Residence at The Ossabaw Island Project

  

1977-78 Fulbright Junior Lecturer to France: American Studies