- Has 3 daughters and 10 grandchildren.
- His novel "Lion Country" was a finalist for the 1972 National Book Award.
- In 2016, Princeton Theological Seminary President Craig Barnes launched the Buechner Writing Workshop at the seminary, calling Buechner a "minister's minister.".
- Was ordained as a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
- He was awarded lectureships at Harvard and Yale universities and held teaching positions at Tufts University, Calvin College and Wheaton College.
- In 1958 he launched the religion department at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he taught for nine years.
- His studies at Princeton University were interrupted by World War II, but he completed his bachelor's degree in English in 1948.
- Wrote nearly 40 books across a number of genres: fiction, autobiography, theology, essays and sermons.
- Graduated with a bachelor's of divinity from Union Theological Seminary - he'd later receive nine honorary degrees.
- When his second novel sold poorly he became a lecturer at New York University.
- His short story "The Tiger," published in The New Yorker, took third prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1955.
- His novel "Godric" was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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