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Alan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 – November 30, 2014) was an American novelist. ==Life== Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. He graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965, 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, as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Turkey, and colleges in Nebraska and Illinois. He lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado until his death in 2014. He had three daughters from his first marriage. All〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Our Souls at Night )〕 of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. Holt is based on Yuma, Colorado, one of Haruf's residences in the early 1980s. His first novel, ''The Tie That Binds'' (1984), received a Whiting Award and a special Hemingway Foundation/PEN citation. ''Where You Once Belonged'' followed in 1990. A number of his short stories have appeared in literary magazines. ''Plainsong'' was published in 1999 and became a U.S. bestseller. Verlyn Klinkenborg called it "a novel so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader."〔("The Sheltering Sky" New York Times review, October 10, 1999 )〕 ''Plainsong'' won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and the Maria Thomas Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. ''Eventide'', a sequel to ''Plainsong'', was published in 2004. ''Library Journal'' described the writing as "honest storytelling that is compelling and rings true." Jonathan Miles saw it as a "repeat performance" and "too goodhearted."〔("Eventide: Where the Dust Motes Glow" New York Times review, May 23, 2004 ) 〕〔(Identitytheory.com ) On this, Haruf said: "...the review in the Sunday New York Times by Jonathan Miles—it was a smart-ass review. A quintessential hip cynical eastern view of things. The following Tuesday Kakutani wrote her review, which for her, was a rave. A very positive review. So I figured her review cancelled his out."〕 On November 30, 2014, Haruf died at his home in Salida, Colorado〔http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/books/kent-haruf-sublime-novelist-of-small-town-life-dies-at-71.html?_r=0〕 at the age of 71.〔The Washington Post. ("Novelist Kent Haruf" retrieved November 30, 2014 ).〕 He died of interstitial lung disease.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kent Haruf, 1943-2014: An astute observer of rural life in the West )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kent Haruf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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