Plainsong
by Kent Haruf

List Price: $13.00
Pages: 301
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0375705856
Publisher: Vintage Books

Kent Haruf grew up on the high plains of northeastern Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. He received a B.A. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1973. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs, including spending two years with the Peace Corps in Turkey; since 1991 he has taught fiction and fiction writing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Haruf is also the author of The Tie That Binds (1984), the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation, and Where You Once Belonged (1990). His short fiction has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Grand Street, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, and The Best American Short Stories. Haruf lives with his wife, Cathy, in Colorado and Illinois. Plainsong, his third novel, was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award.

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