Award for Contemporary Composer of the Year (The Hours) (2004) Critics' Choice Award for Best Composer – The Illusionist (2007) 18th International Palm Springs Film Festival Award (2007) Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Award Laureate (2009) Member of the American Philosophical Society (2009) American Classical Music Hall of Fame (2010) NEA Opera Honors Award (2010) Praemium Imperiale (2012) Dance Magazine Award (2013) Honorary Doctor of Music, Juilliard School (2014) Louis Auchincloss Prize presented by the Museum of the City of New York (2014) Eleventh Glenn Gould Prize Laureate (2015) National Medal of Arts (2015) Chicago Tribune Literary Award (for memoir Words Without Music) (2016) Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play – The Crucible (2016) Carnegie Hall (New York) 2017–2018 Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair (2017) Hollywood Music in Media Awards Best Original Documentary Score – Jane (2017) The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) Lifetime Achievement Award (2017) 11th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score – Jane (2018) Grand Prix France Music Muses Award (for memoir Words Without Music) (2018) Kennedy Center Honors (2018) Recording Academy Trustees Award (2020) ASCAP Television Theme of the Year, Tales from the Loop, co-composer Paul Leonard-Morgan (2021) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 14th Edition (2022) University of Chicago Alumni Award (2023) Compositions Bibliography Reprinted in 1995 by Da Capo Press () with the addition of a new foreword by Glass and an updated music catalog and discography with 52 black & white photographs. See also List of ambient music artists References Sources (hardcover); (paperback). Further reading Bartman, William and Kesten, Joanne (eds). The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of his subjects, New York: A.R.T. Press, 1997. . Duckworth, William (1995, 1999). Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers. New York City: Da Capo Press. (1999 edition). Knowlson, James (2004). Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, New York: Grove Press. . Richardson, John (1999). Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's "Akhnaten". Wesleyan University Press. . Zimmerman, Walter, Desert Plants – Conversations with 23 American Musicians, Berlin: Beginner Press in cooperation with Mode Records, 2020 (originally published in 1976 by A.R.C., Vancouver). The 2020 edition includes a cd featuring the original interview recordings with Larry Austin, Robert Ashley, Jim Burton, John Cage, Philip Corner, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Joan La Barbara, Garrett List, Alvin Lucier, John