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