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Haruf grew up on the high plains of northeastern Colorado.
He was educated at Nebraska Wesleyan University (BA 1965) and the
University of Iowa (M.F.A. 1973). After
a life that included working for the Peace Corps in Turkey, teaching ESL on the
Anatolian Plateau, working on a chicken ranch in Colorado, at a construction
site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, a presidential library in
Iowa, . . . He settled into
teaching creative writing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1991. In addition to his best-selling and critically acclaimed
novel Plainsong, he has written two
previous novels, The Tie That Binds and
Where You Once Belonged. His
short fiction has appeared in Best
American Short Stories and in numerous literary magazines, including Puerto
Del Sol, Grand Street, Prairie Schooner, and Gettysburg Review. Among
his awards, Haruf has been honored with a Whiting Foundations Writer’s Award,
a PEN-Hemmingway Foundation Special Citation, the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction;
Plainsong was a finalist for the
National Book Award. He is a
professor emeritus from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and now lives
near Salida, Colorado.
Selected Bibliography:
Fiction
Plainsong
(1999)
Where
You Once Belonged
(1990)
The Tie That Binds (1984)
At 3:00 PM on Wednesday, March 6, there will be a book signing by Kent Haruf at the Bookstop.