Kent Haruf’s honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers’ Award, the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation; he has also been a finalist for the Nationa...

KENT HARUF is the author of The Tie That Binds, Where You Once Belonged, Plainsong, Eventide, and Benediction. (And, with the photographer Peter Brown, West of Last Chance.) He died in November 2014, at the age of 71.

From the bestselling author of Eventide, The Tie That Binds is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a h...

Kent Haruf's honors include a Whiting Foundation Award and a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation. His most recent novel, Plainsong, won the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los...

"Taut and deadly. . . . A terse and beautifully wrought narration."  --Los Angeles Times"A beautifully told parable--simple and stark and true." --Newsday"Where You Once Belonged speaks with the authenticity of . . . Hemingway and Faulkner."...

Kent Haruf has received prestigious awards, including a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for his finely-tuned works. Before the opening chapter of this novel, Haruf offers a definition. Plainsong is "any simple and unadorned melody o...