National Humanities Medal
American Academy of Arts And Letters
Orange Prize for Fiction
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Pulitzer Prize finalist
American Booksellers Book of the Year
Audiofile Best Audiobook
American Library Association Award
PEN / Faulkner Award
Poets & Writers “Writers for Writers” Award
100 Best Writers of the 20th Century, Writers Digest
Oprah’s Book Club selection
Oprah’s one of “the ten books that have mattered the most to her in the past decade”
United Nations National Council of Women citation of accomplishment
International Medical Reviewer Award
National Book Prize of South Africa
Edward Abbey EcoFiction Award
James Beard Award
Patterson Fiction Prize, The Poetry Center
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
John P. McGovern Award for the Family
Physicians for Social Responsibility National Award
Frank Waters Award
National Writers Union, Andrea Egan Award
Arizona Civil Liberties Union Award
Time Magazine Top 10 commencement speaker
Washington Post A List
Book Sense 2007 bestseller
