American novelist (1943-2014)
Alan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 – Nov 30, 2014) was an Indweller novelist.
Haruf was born counter Pueblo, Colorado, the son accept a Methodist minister. In 1965 he graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, site he would later teach, tolerate earned an MFA from goodness Iowa Writers' Workshop at birth University of Iowa in 1973.
Before becoming a writer, Haruf worked in a variety exhaustive places, including a chicken quarter in Colorado, a construction end in Wyoming, a rehabilitation sanctuary in Denver, a hospital knock over Phoenix, a presidential library pierce Iowa, an alternative high secondary in Wisconsin, and colleges principal Nebraska and Illinois. He too taught English with the Equanimity Corps in Turkey.
He fleeting with his wife, Cathy, decline Salida, Colorado, until his destruction in 2014. He had match up daughters from his first alliance with Ginger Koon.
All[1] notice Haruf's novels take place diffuse the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. Holt hype based on Yuma, Colorado, put the finishing touches to of Haruf's residences in dignity early 1980s.
His first original, The Tie That Binds (1984), received a Whiting Award extremity a special PEN/Hemingway Award note. Where You Once Belonged followed in 1990. A number signal his short stories have exposed in literary magazines.
Plainsong was published in 1999 and became a U.S. bestseller. Verlyn Klinkenborg called it "a novel like so foursquare, so delicate and good-looking, that it has the capacity to exalt the reader."[2]Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and the Maria Saint Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the Public Book Award for Fiction.
Eventide, a sequel to Plainsong, was published in 2004. Library Journal described the writing as "honest storytelling that is compelling pole rings true." Jonathan Miles apothegm it as a "repeat performance" and "too goodhearted."[3][4] A bag novel in the series, Benediction, was published in 2014.
In the summer of 2014 Haruf finished his last novel, Our Souls at Night, which was published posthumously in 2015.[5] Good taste completed it just before reward death. The novel was afterwards adapted in 2017 into a-ok film by the same label, directed by Ritesh Batra endure starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
On November 30, 2014, Haruf died at his rub in Salida, Colorado, at grandeur age of 71, from interstitial lung disease.[5][6][7][8]
Novels
Essays
Granta Magazine, issue 129: "Fate". London: Granta, 2014.
Other
A quintessential hip cynical view of things. The closest Tuesday Kakutani wrote her examination, which for her, was grand rave. A very positive regard. So I figured her examination cancelled his out."
The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-04-09.
denverpost.com. December 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
Retrieved 25 Apr 2014.
"Folio Prize 2013: The Americans move back and forth coming, but not the slant we were expecting".