Pushcart Prize award for "I Wish You Wouldn't," originally published inPartisan Review, No. 3, 1975, reprinted inThe Pushcart Prize, 1976: Best of the Small Presses, and revised for inclusion inCartesian Sonata.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Ceremonial program, May 21, 1975. William H. Gass received an Arts and Letters Award of the Academy-Insitute in Literature.
Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award from Purdue University for William Howard Gass for his signal and effective performance in the instruction of undergraduate students.