General Resources:
Brief biography from Honoring Kent Haruf
Plainsong Reader's Guide from Penguin Random House
Obituary from NY Times
Media:
VIDEO
"Plainsong, One Book-One Lincoln" from Kent Haruf Literary Celebration
"Meet Kent Haruf" from PuebloLibrary
"Greg Schwipps - How Haruf Teaches A Place" from Kent Haruf Literary Celebration
"Peter Brown - Working With Kent: The Creation of West of Last Chance" from Kent Haruf Literary Celebration
AUDIO
"Kent Haruf: 2012 Wallace Stegner Award Recipient" from Center of the American West
"Episode 34: Ari Stiller discusses Plainsong by Kent Haruf" from Lawterature
Articles:
"'Clean as a Cow That Calves': My Ántonia, Plainsong, and the Semiotics of Birth" - Ann Fisher-Wirth
"Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace" by Roberta Silman for The Arts Fuse
"Eyes Covered but Seeing, A Novelist Looks Inward" by Dinitia Smith for NY Times
"Kent Haruf's Holt County, Colorado, in pictures" by Max Liu for PanMacmillan
"Kent Haruf: The complete final interview" by John Moore
"The precious ordinary: Novelist Kent Haruf" by Amy Frykholm for The Christian Century
"The Making of a Writer" by Kent Haruf for Granta
"Q & A with Colorado author Kent Haruf" from Colorado Central Magazine
Tuesday, November XX, 2025