page_title: Michael Wallis
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Wallis / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: Michael Wallis and Joy Harjo. This is a derivative image, a cropped version of https://www.flickr.com/photos/intenteffect/5026685543/
context_page_description: Michael Wallis is an American journalist, popular historian, author, speaker and voice actor. He has written seventeen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road, about the historic highway U.S. Route 66. His work has also been published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including Time, Life, People, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
context_section_description: Wallis has received the John Steinbeck Award, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the Will Rogers Spirit Award, and the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall & Western Heritage Museum.  He has been inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame, Writers Hall of Fame of America, and the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame, and was the first inductee into the Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame.  
  Wallis was interviewed by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) for After Words on Book TV, 29 April 2007, discussing his latest book, Billy the Kid:  The Endless Ride.
caption: Michael Wallis with Joy Harjo in 2010
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