2010 Guest Authors

Fiction writer Kent Haruf grew up in eastern Colorado, where his novels are set. For two years he taught English in Turkey as a member of the Peace Corps. Haruf was 41 before his first piece of fiction was published. His novel Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The New Yorker Book Award. Haruf’s descriptions of rural existence are a richly nuanced mixture of stark details and poetic evocations of the natural world.

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