• 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• Academy of American Poets grant
• Poetry Society of America grant

• The Soloist (1986) recounts a concert pianists slow rediscovery of his art and his solipsism
• Veronica Dial Press, 1996, ISBN 9780385314718 is the account of a battle between rival magicians set in a Manhattan that may or may not be ours. Features the memorable notion that each skyscraper has a matching quarry somewhere.
• A Trip to the Stars (2000) tells of the separation and eventual reuniting of a boy and his aunt after his kidnapping, each of whom goes on their own epic odyssey
• Franklin Flyer (2002) is the biographical novel of an American inventor told against the background of the Depression and the rise of Fascism
• The Bestiary (2007) tells the story of a hunt for a mythical bestiary, an account of the animals on the Second Ark, taking in the experience of the Vietnam war, and featuring mystical animal liberationists

• Walk on the wild side: urban American poetry since 1975, Editor Nicholas Christopher, Simon and Schuster, 1994, ISBN 9780020427254

If you were looking to write a crossover fantasy novel -- one whose audience extended beyond sci-fi enthusiasts and aging Tolkienistas -- you could hardly do better than to study "A Trip to the Stars." With this zestful riff on an enduring genre, Nicholas Christopher should easily satisfy the admirers of his previous novel, "Veronica." He is also likely to gain new readers, including those who foray reluctantly into so-called imaginative literature.

The Bestiary, Nicholas Christopher's fifth novel, is a book about Xeno Atlas, a young man raised by his grandmother in the wake of his mother's death during birth. Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life. Xeno, who reports always feeling a close connection to animals first fostered by his grandmother, sets out on a world-wide adventure to find missing texts with mythical creatures. The book is magical, filled with characters you can't help but find sympathy for and mysteries you can't wait to be solved.