Kent Haruf

Kent Haruf was an American writer born and raised in Colorado, and his six novels and short stories are set mostly in the fictional High Plains town of Holt. The Plainsong series began with Plainsong in 1999, which became a bestseller, and continued with Eventide in 2005 and Benediction in 2013. His final book, Our Souls at Night, was published after his death in 2014 and later adapted into a film.