• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2006 VCU First Novelist Award
• 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

• "Almost Famous", Washington Monthly, April 2002

• Harbor, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 9781400076888
• The Room and the Chair, Knopf, 2010, ISBN 9780307272416

Lorraine Adams is a singular and important American writer. "The Room and the Chair" establishes this without question: It is remarkable for its ambitions and its achievements. It's a war novel, a reporter's novel and a psychological thriller. It encompasses the broadest outlines of our world. It is also Adams' second novel, and it is gutsier and throws a wider net than the topical and gorgeously written "Harbor," her first. Both books are about U.S. involvement in the Middle East, about psychological and political blowback, about what happens when you wage a war and then suddenly it slaps you back, blindsides you.