Kent Nelson (born 1943) is an American short story writer and poet. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School. His 2014 collection The Spirit Bird won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Earlier in his literary career, he was awarded a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Novels Cold Wind River (Dodd, Mead, 1981) All Around Me Peaceful (Dell, 1989) Language in the Blood (Peregrine Smith, 1992) Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still (Viking, 2003)
Short stories The Tennis Player and Other Stories (University of Illinois Press, 1978) The Middle of Nowhere (Peregrine Smith, 1991) Discoveries (Western Reflections, 1998) Toward the Sun: The Collected Sports Stories (Breakaway, 1998) The Touching That Lasts (Johnson, 2006) The Spirit Bird (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014)
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