Early life and education

Early Career

Novels

• Man in Motion (1970)
• Waking Slow (1972)
• The Toll (1974)
• Earthly Bread (1976)
• Land Without Shadow (1979)
• Year of the Gun (1984)
• Blackballed (1986)
• True Crime (1991)
• Shelter from the Storm (2003)
• Island Tempest (2005)
• Lying with the Dead (2009)

Nonfiction

• Life for Death (1980)
• Short Circuit: Six Months on the Men's Professional Tennis Tour (1983)
• Money to Burn (1987)
• Playing Away (1988)
• Ladies of the Court: Grace And Disgrace On The Women's Tennis Tour (1993)
• Do I Owe You Something?: A Memoir of the Literary Life (2003)
• If You Could See Me Now: A Chronicle of Identity and Adoption (2006)
• Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Trip Across North Africa (2010)

• Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing to France, 1968-69.
• William Rainey Prize at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1970.
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship, 1971.
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974.
• Visiting Artist at American Academy in Rome, 1975-76.
• Carr Collins Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1980
• Guggenheim Grant, 1981-82.
• Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, 1980-83.
• Carr Collins Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1983.
• Book of the Year, Tennis Week, 1993.
• Runner-up, William Hill Award, Best Sports Book of the Year in England, 1993.
• Investigative Journalist of the Year, Tennis Week, 1997.