Kent Nelson

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1986
  • Latest Book:
    November 2025
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Books in Order: 12 titles

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  • The Mercy of Others

    In Death Valley, a man picks up a Dutch woman hitchhiker, and things go from bad to worse. A father in South Carolina receives a goodbye call from his daughter, prompting him to fly to New Mexico to look for her. A couple from Minnesota with a sord...

  • The Beautiful Ruined World

    Juliet Ruskin, married with a young child, finds herself troubled by the lies she's told her husband and the larger secret of her past. To cope, Juliet decides to write down her story, hoping to find forgiveness at the end. The story Juliet writes te...

  • The Spirit Bird: Stories

    The flight path of <i>The Spirit Bird</i> traces many landscapes and different transitory lives. A young man scratches out a living from the desert; a woman follows a rarely seen bird in the far reaches of Alaska; a poor single mother sor...

  • The Touching That Lasts

    Explore the human longing for connection in these fourteen deceptively simple stories that stay hooked in the imagination long after the final page.In these fourteen breathtaking stories, award-winning author Kent Nelson explores how very different p...

  • Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still

    Having lost her husband in a farm accident, Mattie is forced to confront his hidden past and enlists their daughter, a woman ranch hand, and a runaway Native American boy to keep the family alfalfa ranch in business. By the author of Language in ...

  • Toward the Sun: The Collected Sports Stories of Kent Nelson

  • Discoveries

    Kent Nelson's varied and entertaining stories draw the reader to explore the difficult landscape of human emotions. The stories have been described as intense and intellectually honest. "The dramas spring from authentically cautious people caught bet...

  • Language in the Blood

    After a series of personal and professional disappointments, Scott Talmadge is at a turning point in his life and decides to accept a temporary teaching post at the University of Arizona. He contacts a college friend who has received letters from Sco...

  • Middle of Nowhere



  • Tennis Player

  • All Around Me Peaceful

    A marvelous novel filled with the beauties and hardships of life in the West

    For two years Neil Shanks has been living in Gold Hill, Colorado, putting off the moment when he must return to the family lumber business in Michigan -- a business ...

  • Straight Man

Award-Winning Books by Kent Nelson

Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still
2004 Reading the West -- Fiction
The Spirit Bird: Stories
2014 Drue Heinz Literature Prize -- Short Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kent Nelson has published 12 books.

Kent Nelson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mercy of Others, was published in November 2025.

The first book by Kent Nelson, Straight Man, was published in May 1986.

No. Kent Nelson does not write books in series.
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