Gail Godwin

Degrees, Honors & Awards

Gail Godwin

  • BA in Journalism, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1959.
  • MA in English, University of Iowa, 1968.
  • Ph.D. in English, University of Iowa, 1971.
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1972.
     
  • National Endowment for the Arts grant for fiction writing, 1974.
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction writing, 1975.
  • American Specialist in Brazil for USIS, 1976.
  • National Endowment for the Arts grant for libretto writing, 1977.
  • National Book Award nominee for The Odd Woman, 1974.
  • American Book Award nominee for Violet Clay, 1980.
  • American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Award in Literature, 1981.
  • National Book Award nominee for A Mother and Two Daughters, 1982.
  • Editor of The Best American Short Stories, 1985.
  • Chairman of National Book Award Judges, 1986.
  • Janet Heidiger Kafka Award from the University of Rochester for A Southern Family, 1987.
  • Western North Carolina Historical Association's Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award for A Southern Family, 1987.
  • Distinguished Alumna award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988.
  • Inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers, 1997.

Honorary Doctorates from:

  • The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • The University of North Carolina at Asheville
  • The State University of New York at New Paltz
  • The University of the South, Sewanee
  • Honorary Doctor of Divinity, General Theological Seminary, NY