Imagine Me Gone (Haslett) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—December 24, 1970
• Where—Port Chester, New York, USA
• Raised—Oxfordshire, England, UK; Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
• Education—B.A., Swarthmore College; M.F.A., University of Iowa; J.D., Yale University
• Awards—(See below)
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York


Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer. He was born in Port Chester, New York and grew up in Oxfordshire, England, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A., 1992), the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1999), and Yale Law School (J.D., 2003). He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University. Fall 2011 he enjoyed half a year of free study work at the American Academy in Berlin. He currently lives in New York City, New York.

Books
His first book, a collection of short stories entitled You Are Not a Stranger Here, was released in 2002 and was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and the 2003 Pulitzer Prize and spent some time on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was also named one of the five best books of the year by Time.

Haslett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Nation, Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories, as well as National Public Radio's "Selected Shorts." His first novel, Union Atlantic, was released in 2010 and his second, Imagine Me Gone, in 2016.

Awards
2002 - New York Magazine Writer of the Year
2002 - National Book Award, finalist
2003 - Pulitzer Prize, finalist
2003 - L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
2006 - PEN/Malamud Award
2011 - Mary Ellen von der Heyden Prize, Fiction
(Author bio adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 5/8/2016.)