2005
The Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award for best magazine story of the year for “Family Vacation,” a story about a California sperm donor, which ran in the Washington Post Magazine.
2005
The [University of] Missouri Journalism Lifestyle Award for “The Weight,” a 2004 Washington Post Magazine story about American obesity.
2001,2002, 2003 and 2004
The Best American Sports Writing anthologies, published annually by Houghton Mifflin Company, feature the 25 best sports stories in the country.
2007
The American Society of Tropical Medicine award in journalism for “Breaking the Cycle,” a story about the search for a malaria vaccine.
1998
The Society of Professional Journalists’ Green Eyeshade Award for the best newspaper feature story of the year for “Oswald: A Brother’s Burden,” a 1997 story about Robert Oswald, brother of Lee Harvey Oswald.