Biography: Award, Recognitions, and Nominations

Award Name: Editor's Choice Award
Organization: Publishers Weekly
Work Awarded: The Great Auk
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1963

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: History category
Work Awarded: A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood
Type of Work: a contemporary historical narrative
Year: 1965

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: Fiction category
Work Awarded: The Silent Sky: The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1965

Award Name: Allan W. Eckert Collection, a continuing compilation, established at the Mugar Memorial Library
Organization: Boston University
Work Awarded: consisting of manuscripts, research papers, notes, correspondence, memorabilia, etc.
Year: 1965

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: Fiction category
Work Awarded: Wild Season
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1967

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: History category
Work Awarded: The Frontiersmen
Type of Work: Historical narrative
Year: 1967

Award Name: Writer of the Year Award
Organization: Friends of American Writers
Work Awarded: Wild Season
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1968

Award Name: Writer of the Year Award
Organization: Friends of American Writers
Work Awarded: The Frontiersmen
Type of Work: Historical narrative
Year: 1968

Award Name: Book of the Year Award, History category
Organization: Ohioana Library Association
Work Awarded: The Frontiersmen
Type of Work: Historical narrative
Year: 1968

Award Name: Emmy Award, Outstanding Program Achievement
Organization: The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Work Awarded: "Cougar Country"
Type of Work: A Wild Kingdom episode
Year: 1968/9

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: History category
Work Awarded: Wilderness Empire
Type of Work: Historical narrative
Year: 1969

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: History category
Work Awarded: The Conquerors
Type of Work: Historical narrative
Year: 1970

Award Name: Newbury-Caldecott Honor Book Award
Work Awarded: Incident at Hawk's Hill
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1972

Award Name: Recognition of Merit
Organization: George G. Stone/Claremont Colleges
Work Awarded: Incident at Hawk's Hill
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1974

Award Name: Austrian Juvenile Book of the Year Award
Work Awarded: Incident at Hawk's Hill
Type of Work: Nature novel
Year: 1976

Award Name: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree
Organization: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
Year: 1985

Award Name: Silver Arrow Humanitarian Award
Organization: Scioto Society
Work Awarded: "for his contributions to the human spirit and knowledge as an author, novelist, playwright, naturalist, and historian."
Year: 1987

Award Name: The Americanism Award
Organization: The National Daniel Boone Foundation
Work Awarded: The Winning of America
Type of Work: Historical narrative series
Year: 1987

Award Name: Commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel and awarded honorary resident of the State of Kentucky
Organization: by the governor of the State of Kentucky
Work Awarded: The Winning of America
Type of Work: Historical narrative series
Year: 1987

Award Name: The Allan W. Eckert Historical Collection
Organization: Established at the Filson Club Historical Society Library, Louisville, Kentucky.
Type of Work: consisting of historical research data, maps, journals, logbooks, diaries, file cards, military and tribal records, etc.
Year: 1987

Award Name: Pulitzer Prize nomination
Category: Biography category
Work Awarded: A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh
Type of Work: Biography
Year: 1995

Award Name: The Spur Award runner-up
Organization: The Western Writers of America
Work Awarded: That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
Type of Work: Historical narrative
Year: 1996

Award Name: Writer of the Year Award
Organization: The National Popular Culture Association
Work Awarded: The eclectic quality of his entire body of writings
Year: 1997

Award Name: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
Organization: Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Work Awarded: His body of work and community contributions
Year: 1998

Award Name: Best Ohio Authors of All Time...and Their Books
Organization: Ohioana Library Association 70th Anniversary Celebration
Work Awarded: Eckert's The Frontiersmen as the all-time favoite book about Ohio or an Ohioan; Eckert himself as favorite author of all time in the category of "About Ohio or an Ohioan"; and top honor in the principal category of "Overall Favorite Ohio Author of All Time" resulted in a tie, shared by Toni Morrison and Allan W.. Eckert.
Year: 1999

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