Lisa Kahn later married Herbert Finkelstein and converted to Judaism in 1973. She died in Houston on July 3, 2013. Kahn was a member of International PEN from 1982, of American PEN from 1985 and of from 1989. She received various distinctions and awards, including the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 and was named by the University of New Mexico in 1993. For her contributions to German in Texas, she received the German-Texan Heritage Society's award. The Society for Contemporary American Literature in German's annual poetry prize, named after Robert L. Kahn from 1988 to 2013, is now called the Lisa & Robert Kahn Prize for Poetry in German.
