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As a novelist, he worked in English throughout his career, producing fiction that attracted sustained critical attention. He also worked as a docent, a role that placed him within educational and cultural institutions alongside his writing life. His notable work includes The Tie That Binds, a novel that marked his presence within American literary fiction.\n\nWriting in American English, Haruf received honors from several literary organizations during his lifetime. He received the Whiting Awards, a distinction that brought his work to wider attention. He also received the Dos Passos Prize, an honor that further marked the critical regard his fiction attracted. Additionally, he received the Lange-Taylor Prize, adding to the accumulation of recognition his writing earned over the course of his career.\n\nHaruf remained a citizen of the United States throughout his life, and Colorado framed his biography from his birth in Pueblo to his death in Salida on November 30, 2014. 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