Victor LaValle

Award-Winning Author of "The Changeling," "The Ballad of Black Tom" & "Big Machine"

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Victor LaValle Biography

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling and two novellas, Lucretia and the Kroons and The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the creator and writer of a comic book Victor LaValle's DESTROYER.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, an American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens.

He was raised in Queens, New York. He now lives in Washington Heights with his wife and kids. He teaches at Columbia University.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/09/2024.

Victor LaValle Videos

  • Nnedi Okorafor, Matt Ruff & Victor LaValle
    John Jennings welcomes writer Nnedi Okorafor and authors Matt Ruff and Victor LaValle. This event was part of the 2018 Black Comix Arts Festival.
  • Victor LaValle on Changelings, Literary Horror, and Racist Book Reviewers
    Victor LaValle chops it up with his latest novel The Changeling, how he became the Drake of Literary Horror, growing up in Queens and selling his...
  • Visiting Writers Series Interview with Victor LaValle
    In an interview with Suzanne Parker, Victor LaValle talks about how he as a kid came to writing via horror stories and later, after leaving college,...

Victor LaValle Books

  • The Changeling: A Novel
    The Changeling: A Novel
  • The Ballad Of Black Tom
    The Ballad Of Black Tom
  • The Devil in Silver: A Novel
    The Devil in Silver: A Novel
  • Big Machine: A Novel
    Big Machine: A Novel
  • The Ecstatic
    The Ecstatic

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