In addition to a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 and a National Magazine Award in 2001 (both for fiction), Robert Olen Butler has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and an NEA grant, as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Francis Eppes Professor of English, holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing, at Florida State University.