Kent Haruf Books in Order

Kent Haruf was born in eastern Colorado and developed a rich literary background, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. Haruf's diverse career spans teaching English in Turkey with the Peace Corps and various jobs across the United States, including working on a chicken farm, a construction site, and hospitals. A celebrated author, Haruf is known for his novels set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, loosely based on his early residence in Yuma, Colorado. His notable works include Plainsong, which received prestigious awards such as the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Tie That Binds, which earned a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the Pen/Hemingway Foundation. Haruf's contributions to literature were recognized with the Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2006.