- His classic short story "The Open Boat" was inspired by an actual experience that occurred while he was a war correspondent. His ship having been sunk, he spent a week with a handful of other survivors in a lifeboat, some of it in rough weather. Most feel that it was during this period that he contracted the tuberculosis that lead to his early death at the age of 28.
- Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club.
- He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
- He was nominated for the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts & Letters category.
- He was nominated for the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and arts and letters category.
- He was inducted into the 2019-2020 Class of the New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
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