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Bookmark or Share- Kent Haruf - Colorado EncyclopediaKent Haruf (1943–2014) was a novelist best known for Plainsong (1999). Set in the fictional town of Holt in northeast Colorado, Plainsong and Haruf’s other novels examine the lives of ordinary people on the high plains.
- Kent Haruf, Acclaimed Novelist of Small-Town Life, Is Dead at 71Kent Haruf pulled a wool cap over his eyes when he sat down at his manual typewriter each morning so he could “write blind,” fully immersing himself in the fictitious small town in eastern...
- Kent Haruf - WikipediaAlan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 – November 30, 2014) was an American novelist. Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. In 1965 he graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he would later teach, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973.
- Kent Haruf - Book Series in OrderKent Haruf is an award-winning literary fiction novelist from Pueblo, Colorado. He was born in 1943 to Louis Hoerauf, a Methodist preacher who changed the family name to Haruf since he was frustrated that nobody seemed to get it right.
- Kent Haruf dies at 71; novelist illuminated small-town lifeKent Haruf, who found acclaim in midlife with a trilogy of sparely written novels, including the 1999 bestseller “Plainsong” that illuminated the rhythms and dramas of small-town life in...
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