- 5/2025–Daniel wins the Stephen Ambrose Award for his use of oral histories in writing Facing the Mountain and other works.
- 4/16/2024—Focus Features options The Indifferent Stars Above for a possible feature film.
- 3/24/2024—The Boys in the Boat marks three years on the New York Times bestseller list.
- 12/11/2023–George Clooney’s “The Boys in the Boat” movie premiers in Los Angeles.
- 5/2/2022—Facing the Mountain wins the Christopher Award.
- 10/18/2021 Facing the Mountain is long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
- 7/10/2021–Amazon’s editors name Facing the Mountain one of its “Best Books of 2021 so far.”
- 5/20/2021–Facing the Mountain makes it onto the New York Times bestseller list its first week out in the world.
- 4/1/2021–International Editions Coming–Facing the Mountain, is set to be published in English, French, Hebrew and Japanese.
- 8/2/2016—“The Boy’s of ’36” inspired by The Boys in the Boat and featuring interviews with Daniel airs on PBS.
- 10/2016—Washington State Book Awards: The Boys in the Boat takes first place in the “General Nonfiction” category.
- 9/4/2015 Daniel wins the Mayor’s Arts Award in Seattle for The Boys in the Boat.
- 6/2014—The Boys in the Boat lands at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
- 6/8/2014—The American Booksellers Association votes The Boys in the Boat the 2014 Nonfiction Book of the Year for 2014.