![]() ![]() Upon his return to the United States, Haruf married his girlfriend, Virginia Koon. Struggling WriterĪfter graduating in 1965 with a degree in English, Haruf spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English to children in a small town in central Turkey. “I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life reading great writing and thinking about it.” The influence of Hemingway’s spare prose and Faulkner’s sense of place is evident in Haruf’s novels. “My life and my intentions were changed forever,” he later wrote. Initially intending to study biology, he changed course when he read William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. In the early 1960s, Haruf left Colorado to attend Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln. Haruf then spent his teens in Ca ñ on City, where he attended high school. ![]() For the first twelve years of his life, Haruf’s family moved between the northeast Colorado towns of Wray, Holyoke, and Yuma. His father was a Methodist minister, and the family moved often. ![]() ![]() Early LifeĪlan Kent Haruf was born in Pueblo on February 24, 1943, as the third of Eleanor and Louis Haruf’s four children. Often praised for his unadorned style and humane outlook, Haruf is generally regarded as one of the great American novelists of his time. Set in the fictional town of Holt in northeast Colorado, Plainsong and Haruf’s other novels examine the lives of ordinary people on the high plains. Kent Haruf (1943–2014) was a novelist best known for Plainsong (1999). ![]()
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