In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture[1] (1980), which remains significant to modern European intellectual history.
He was a recipient of the first year of MacArthur Fellows Program awards in 1981 and made an honorary citizen of Vienna in 2012.
[2] He served in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, as chief of political intelligence for Western Europe.
[3] Professor Schorske was named by Time magazine as one of the nation's ten top academic leaders.
[8][9][10] In 2004 Schorske received the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Association (Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft).