 In 1991, he received the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writer's Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.Klinkenborg's books include "More Scenes from the Rural Life" (Princeton Architectural Press), "Making Hay" and "The Last Fine Time".His book "Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile" concerns the tortoise which the English eighteenth century parson-naturalist Gilbert White inherited from his aunt, as described in his 1789 book "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne".