Last year she was given a MacArthur award of $500,000.

The MacArthur award in 1990 gave her $295,000 over five years and "changed my life," she said.

The first certification of his return to creativity was a MacArthur award in 1988.

Partly, she believes that the MacArthur award is her only chance to save a lot of money quickly.

In 1982, he received a MacArthur Award which paid him $300,000 over 5 years.

The MacArthur Award is presented annually to seniors at these military schools.

Without any family money to fall back on, the couple welcomed the MacArthur award with what the winner called "undifferentiated relief."

Soon after she won her $285,000 MacArthur award, for example, she went to a local store and "splurged."

Brown's profile grew through the 1980s, and in 1991 she was given a MacArthur award (the so-called "genius grant").

In 2006, he received the MacArthur Award in recognition of his research and writing.