"WU Novelist and Poets Win Prestigious Literary Awards" from Washington University Record, May 1, 1980. From the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Donald Finkel was awarded the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award; Stanley Elkin was awarded the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for his book, The Living End, and Pamela White Hadas was awarded the Witter Bynner Price Award for Poetry.