Kent Haruf

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born

February 24, 1943 in Pueblo, Colorado, The United States

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male

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William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway

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Kent Haruf was born in eastern Colorado. He received his Bachelors of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. For two years, he taught English in Turkey with the Peace Corps and his other jobs have included a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Colorado, a hospital in Arizona, a library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, and universities in Nebraska and Illinois.

Haruf is the author of Plainsong, which received the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction, and The New Yorker Book Award. Plainsong...more

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Books by Kent Haruf

Average rating: 3.87 · 18,847 ratings · 1,932 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Plainsong 3.85 avg rating — 13,509 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Eventide 3.97 avg rating — 3,326 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Tie That Binds 3.89 avg rating — 1,225 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Where You Once Belonged: A Novel 3.73 avg rating — 726 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	West of Last Chance by Kent Haruf, Peter Brown 4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Colorado Blues 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Where You Once Belonged 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Chorał 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Canto Della Pianura 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	My rating:
	Het lied van de vlakte 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.”
― Kent Haruf, Plainsong

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“Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.”
― Kent Haruf, Plainsong

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“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable.”
― Kent Haruf, Eventide

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