Kent Haruf’s honors include a Whiting Foundation Award, a Stegner Award, a Frank Waters Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His novel Plainsong won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist
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Kent Haruf’s honors include a Whiting Foundation Award, a Stegner Award, a Frank Waters Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. 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. He lives with his wife, Cathy, in his native Colorado.