- The University of Michigan's Hopwood Program, which awards the prestigious "Hopwood Prize" for creative writing, is named after him. Notable Hopwood Prize winners include playwright Arthur Miller, Frank O'Hara, director-screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and transgressive short-story writer Mary Gaitskill. Hopwood was a Michigan alumnus who left a bequest in his will establishing the awards. The Hopwood Program at Michigan now administers the Arthur Miller Award of the U-M Club of New York Scholarship and the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing, among other award/scholarship programs.
- In 1920, he had four hit shows running on Broadway simultaneously.
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