- 1966 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1971 Time magazine Best Books of the Year list, for City Life
- 1972 National Book Award, Children's Books, for The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or the Hithering Thithering Djinn[6]
- 1972 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1976 Jesse H Jones Award from Texas Institute of Letters, for The Dead Father
- 1982:
- (nomination) National Book Critics Circle Award for Sixty Stories
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Sixty Stories
- 1988 Rea Award for the Short Story
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