# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kent-haruf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:15:30.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kent-haruf"
name: "Kent Haruf"
slug: "kent-haruf"
description: "Alan Kent Haruf was an American writer born and raised in the US state of Colorado. He wrote six novels and several short stories set on the High Plains, mostly in the fictional town of Holt."
tagline: "American novelist (1943–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kent_Haruf_1984.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-02-24"
deathDate: "2014-11-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.968804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1367106/"
    handle:    "nm1367106"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "کنت هاروف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Haruf"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%84"
    title: "Кент Гаруф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6391763"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1897005"
    title: "Kent Haruf"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump