It was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.Įventide (2004), a national bestseller, received the Colorado Book Award, and was a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. It won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association Award, the Book Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Alex Award from the American Library Association, and the Evil Companions Literary Award.

Plainsong (1999) was a finalist for the National Book Award, The New Yorker Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Book Sense Book of the Year Award. Where You Once Belonged (1991) received the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction. The Tie That Binds (1984) received the Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, a PEN/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation, and was a finalist for the American Book Award for First Fiction. Haruf’s novels have been translated into 30 languages and include: Haruf lived in Salida, Colorado until his death in 2014 he is survived by his wife Cathy, three daughters, and five step-children. Toward the end of his life he suffered from a lung disease despite declining health he still began each working day by reading from the two authors he most admired-William Faulkner and Anton Chekhov. Over the next thirty years, Haruf authored six novels and co-wrote a book of prose and photography. He was 41 years old when his first short story, “Now (And Then)” was accepted for publication in the literary magazine Puerto del Sol.

Peace Corps in Turkey, and afterward taught high school English in Wisconsin and Colorado, and fiction writing at Nebraska Wesleyan University and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Before becoming a writer, he worked in a variety of places, including a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, a hospital in Phoenix, and a presidential library in Iowa. He received a BA in English from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1973. Kent Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1943, the son of a Methodist minister.

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