His translation of Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973, while his nonfiction work Laws of Heaven was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.
His translation of Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow competed as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973, while his work Laws of Heaven secured victory with the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.