Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett ( born December 24, 1970 in Port Chester, New York) is an American writer and lawyer.

Haslett grew up in Massachusetts and in Oxfordshire, England. He studied literature and law at Yale, at Swarthmore College and the University of Iowa. His work includes, among other things, employees of the story collection The ghost of love (Original Title: You Are Not a Stranger Here) (2010 reprinted with the title devotion) and the novel Union Atlantic.

The ghost of love won in 2006 the PEN / Malamud Award. The novel Union Atlantic is concerned with the current financial crisis, but this moved into the year 2002. In the second half of 2011 he had a grant from the American Academy in Berlin.

Works

• The ghost of love, Goldmann 2003, ISBN 978-3442454174 New edition with a new title: dedication. Tales from the English Pociao and Roberto de Hollanda; Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010 ISBN 978-3-499-25419-2 Reinbek