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Bookmark or Share- 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 - 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, Author of ‘Plainsong’ Trilogy, Dies at Age 71Kent Haruf conjured an entire fictional town on the windswept Colorado Plains – with his eyes wide shut. Haruf, perhaps Colorado’s most celebrated novelist, wrote Plainsong, Eventide and Benediction by tapping away at an old-fashioned manual typewriter in his backyard writing shed.
- 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...
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