With an English father, Haslett spent his childhood and teen years between Massachusetts and England. While studying law, concluding with a degree from Yale, his short stories appeared in magazines such as “The Yale Review”, “Bomb”, and “Zoetrope”.  He is the author of the successful and pluri-awarded collection of stories You Are Not a Stranger Here, a Pulitzer and the National Book Award finalist, translated in fifteen languages, and came out in Italy with Einaudi titled Il principio del dolore. His first novel, Union Atlantic, published in 2010 and in Italy again by Einaudi has been welcomed by American critics as a master portrait of the current economic crisis and defined by Jonathan Franzen as “… the rare novel that is both urgently of its time, and fully true to itself. … a book of exceptional maturity, completeness, compassion, comedy and suspense.”