- Kent Haruf
Kent Haruf (born
February 24 ,1943 ) is an award winning Americannovel ist.Haruf was born in
Pueblo, Colorado , the son of aMethodist minister. He graduated with a BA fromNebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and an MFA from theIowa Writers' Workshop at theUniversity of Iowa in 1973. Before becoming a writer, Haruf worked in a variety of places, including a chicken farm inColorado , a construction site inWyoming , a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, a hospital in Phoenix, a presidential library inIowa , an alternative high school inWisconsin , as an English teacher with thePeace Corps inTurkey , and colleges inNebraska andIllinois . He currently lives with his wife, Cathy, inSalida, Colorado , and has three daughters.All Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. His first novel, "
The Tie That Binds " (1984), received a Whiting Foundation Award and a special Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation. "Where You Once Belonged " followed in 1990. A number of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines."Plainsong" was published in 1999 and became a U.S.
bestseller . "The New York Times " called it "a novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader." "Plainsong" won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction and was a finalist for theNational Book Award for Fiction."Eventide", a sequel to "Plainsong", was published in 2004. "
Library Journal " described the writing as "honest storytelling that is compelling and rings true," but "The New York Times" saw it as a "repeat performance" and "too goodhearted."Haruf was awarded the
Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2006.Bibliography
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The Tie That Binds " (1984)
*"Where You Once Belonged " (1990)
*"Plainsong" (1999)
*"Eventide" (2004)References
* " [http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatispc.notable.artsandlit Notable Former Volunteers / Arts and Literature] ". Peace Corps official site. Accessed
5 January 2007 .External links
* [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1020577 Meet the Writers: Kent Haruf Barnes and Noble profile and interview]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803EFDD153FF930A35753C1A96F958260 The Sheltering Sky New York Times review of Plainsong, Verlyn Klinkenborg, October 3, 1999]
* [http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/harucrit.htm What the Critics Say About Kent Haruf]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/books/review/23MILESL.html?ex=1400644800&en=dd249cf0a28b6744&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND 'Eventide': Where the Dust Motes Glow New York Times review of Eventide, Jonathan Miles, May 23, 2004]
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