Descriptive Summary
Administration Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Kent Haruf papers
Dates: 1965-2013
Collection Number: mssKH 1-3737
Creator:
Haruf, Kent
Extent:
116 boxes, 5 volumes, and 5 oversize folders
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Manuscripts Department
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2203
Fax: (626) 449-5720
Email: manuscripts@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera by and about American author Kent Haruf.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Administration Information
Access
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please go to following
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Publication Rights
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and
obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Kent Haruf papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Kent Haruf, 2008 and 2014.
Biography
Kent Haruf (1943-2014) was an American author. His novels, set in the fictional town of Holt, Colorado, explore the lives
of ordinary people living on the high plains in the 20th Century. Plainsong (1999) was a finalist for the National Book Award
and Benediction (2014) was shortlisted for the Folio Prize.
Scope and Content
Manuscripts are arranged alphabetically by author's last name, and then by title. Included are notes and drafts of all of
Haruf's published novels, as well as one unpublished novel, and several short stories and essays.
Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by author's last name, then chronologically. There is extensive correspondence with
Haruf's agents at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc., and later, Nancy Stauffer Associates, as well as publisher Alfred A. Knopf
and editor Gary Fisketjon.
The ephemera are arranged in the following subseries: photographs, production and publicity, printed materials by and about
Haruf, events and awards, miscellaneous, audio-visual, and realia.
There is one box of oversize manuscripts and correspondence, three additional boxes of oversize materials, five loose oversize
folders, five loose scrapbook albums, and one oversize box containing Haruf's typewriter.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three major series: Manuscripts (Box 1-51), Correspondence (Box 52-99), and Ephemera (Box 101-112),
as well as oversize materials (Box 100, 113-115), arranged primarily in alphabetical order by last name.
Indexing Terms
Personal Names
Brown, Peter (Peter T.)
Bloodworth-Thomason, Linda, 1947-
Callaway, Kathy, 1943-
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Denver Center Theatre Company
Dickinson, Donald C.
Dybek, Stuart, 1942-
Fisketjon, Gary
Green, Ben,1951-
Hansen, Ron, 1947-
Haruf, Kent -- Archives
Hendrie, Laurie 1954-
Irving, John, 1942-
Jones, Rodney, 1950-
Kloefkorn, William.
Lee, David, 1944 August 13-
Leggett, John, 1917-
Milofsky, David
Misurella, Fred, 1940-
Pipher, Mary Bray
Proulx, Annie
Rea, Tom, 1950-
Rowland, Mary
Russo, Richard, 1949-
Satterfield, Leon
Schmiedl, Eric
Somoza, Joseph
Sonnenberg, Ben
Spragg, Mark, 1952-
Wakefield, Dan
Zarzyski, Paul
Corporate Names
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Nancy Stauffer Associates
Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Turkey
Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
Subjects
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- 21st century.
American literature -- Colorado.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Stage adaptations.
Genre
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th Century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 21st Century
Manuscripts for publication -- United States -- 20th Century
Manuscripts for publication -- United States -- 21st Century
Photographs