Victor LaValle Bio | Wiki
Victor LaValle is an American author. He wrote a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling. Victor’s fantasy-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.
He writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among others. Slapboxing with Jesus became published in 1999 by Vintage Books.
The eleven interconnected stories deal mostly with the lives of young black and Latino men living in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection went on to receive wide critical praise. It won the author a PEN Open Book Award and the Key to Jamaica, Queens.
Victor Lavalle Age
Victor was born on February 3, 1972, in New York, New York, United States. He is 50 years old.
Victor Lavalle Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.70 m).
Victor Lavalle Family
He was born and raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York by a single mother. Victor’s mother had emigrated from Uganda in her twenties. He holds an American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Victor Lavalle Wife
Victor is married to his beautiful wife Emily Raboteau. She is a novelist. The family resides in New York with their son and daughter.
Victor Lavalle Education
He attended Woodmere Academy. Later Victor went on to earn a degree in English from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Victor Lavalle Books
He is the author of the following books:
Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories 1999
The Ecstatic 2002
Big Machine 2009
The Devil in Silver 2012
The Ballad of Black Tom 2016.
Lavalle, Victor 2017
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers 2019
Victor Lavalle Changeling
His book The Changeling became published in 2017 by Spiegel & Grau and received critical acclaim. It was selected as one of 2017’s ten best books by the New York Public Library and won a 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It also received the 2018 Locus Award for Horror Novel and the 2018 British Fantasy Award for Horror Novel.
Victor Lavalle Destroyer
Destroyer, a graphic novel published in 2017 by Boom! Studios is a modern retelling of Frankenstein. The story follows an African-American descendant of Dr. Frankenstein, her only son who was killed in a police encounter, and the monster from the original novel who has long given up on peace.
Victor Lavalle Big Machine
Victor.s book Big Machine was published in 2009 by Spiegel & Grau. The novel tells the story of Ricky Rice, an ex-junkie survivor of a suicide cult whose life is changed when a mysterious letter arrives summoning him to a remote compound in Vermont.
The novel was widely praised upon its release, making many national top ten lists. It also received the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2009, as well as the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and an American Book Award in 2010.
Victor Lavalle The Devil In Silver
The Devil in Silver published on August 21, 2012, is the story of Pepper, a sane man sent for observation in a mental hospital. There he encounters a monster roaming the nighttime halls. Pepper teams up with some of the other inmates to fight the mental confusion of the drugs he is required to take, the staff, and the monster.
Victor Lavalle The Ballad Of Black Tom
Victor’s novel, The Ballad of Black Tom, a novella, was published on February 16, 2016. It is a retelling of the H. P. Lovecraft story “The Horror at Red Hook” from the point of view of a young black man living in Harlem with a reference to the Nation of Gods and Earths.
Victor Lavalle Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Victor’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Who Is Victor Lavalle
Victor is an American author. He wrote a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and four novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, and The Changeling. Victor’s fantasy-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.