![]() Plainsong was published in 1999 and became a U.S. A number of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines. Where You Once Belonged followed in 1990. His first novel, The Tie That Binds (1984), received a Whiting Award and a special Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation. Holt is based on Yuma, Colorado, one of Haruf's residences in the early 1980s. He had three daughters from his first marriage.Īll of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. He lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado, until his death in 2014. In 1965 he graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he would later teach, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973.īefore becoming a writer, Haruf 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, a presidential library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, and colleges in Nebraska and Illinois and as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Turkey. Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. ![]() Alan Kent Haruf (Febru– November 30, 2014) was an American novelist. ![]()
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