1928-30- Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University

1936- Helen Haire Levinson Prize for Poetry; Caroline Sinkler Prize for Poetry of

South Carolina

1937- Caroline Sinkler Prize

1938- Caroline Sinkler Prize

1947- Receives Pulitzer Prize for Fiction book All the Kings Men

1950- Elected National Institute of Arts and Letters

1951- Named Professor of Playwriting in Yale School of Drama

Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1952- Honorary D. Litt from Kenyon College; Elected to the American Philosophical

Society

1956- Honorary D. Litt from Colby College

1957- Sidney Hillman Award for Journalism; Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize of the

America Poetry; Honorary D. Litt. From University Kentucky

1958- Receives National Book Award for Promises

1959- Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters; Honorary D. Litt. From

Swarthmore College

1960- Honorary D. Litt. From Yale University

1965- Irita Van Doren Award; Honorary LLD from University of Bridgeport

1968- National Arts Foundation Award

1969- Honorary D. Litt. From Foundation University

1970- Receives National Medal for Literature; Van Wyck Brooks Award; Henry A. Bellamen Prize, all for Audubon: A Vision; Honorary D. Litt. From Wesleyn University

1979- Receives Pulitzer Prize for Now and Then

1981- Receives MacArthur Prize Fellowship

1985- Receives American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry