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    With great sadness, we learned of Kent Haruf’s passing on Sunday, November 30. Author of the novels The Tie that Binds, Where You Once Belonged, Plainsong, Eventide,Benediction, and Our Souls at Night, he has long been a prominent voice in Colorado literature, specifically of Colorado’s northeastern plains, which don’t get much attention but whose quiet beauty Kent well understood and celebrated. He was a good friend to literary magazines, and to Colorado Review in particular. In 2002 he was the recipient of the Evil Companions Literary Award, a fundraising event for which Colorado Review was the beneficiary, and he gave (no surprise) a beautiful reading that night, graciously answering questions from the audience afterward and making it an evening to remember for years to come. In a 2004 special issue on Writing of the New West, he allowed CR to publish the first chapter from the then forthcoming Eventide. And though he’d generously agreed to j

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    Kent Haruf

    American novelist (1943-2014)

    Alan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 – November 30, 2014) was an American novelist.

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    Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. 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.

    Before 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. He also taught English with the Peace Corps in Turkey. He lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado, until his death in 2014. He had three daughters from his first marriage with Ginger Koon.

    All[1] of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado.

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    This article was published on November 30, 2014

    Kent Haruf conjured an entire fictional town on the windswept Colorado Plains – with his eyes wide shut.

    Haruf, perhaps Colorado’s most celebrated novelist, wrote Plainsong, Eventide and benediktion by tapping away at an old-fashioned manual typewriter in his backyard writing shed. And it was Haruf’s style to always type with his eyes closed. That was his way of allowing his imagination to help him create quiet, moving stories of the rural townspeople of skogsdunge that millions of readers found to be universally identifiable.

    Haruf, 71, died Sunday morning of lung disease at his home in Salida, about 150 miles southwest of Denver.

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