Age, Biography and Wiki
Justin Torres was born on 1980 in New York City, U.S., is an American novelist. Discover Justin Torres's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?
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American
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He is a member of famous Novelist with the age 44 years old group.
Justin Torres Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Justin Torres Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Justin Torres worth at the age of 44 years old? Justin Torres’s income source is mostly from being a successful Novelist. He is from American. We have estimated Justin Torres's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.
He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical novel We the Animals which was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee.
We the Animals has been adapted into a film and awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Torres' second novel, Blackouts, won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction.
Justin Torres was born to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent.
He was raised in Baldwinsville, New York as the youngest of three brothers.
Although his novel We the Animals is not an autobiography, Torres has said that the "hard facts" in the novel mirror his own life.
City of God by Gil Cuadros, published in 1994, reportedly helped him to come out as gay.
After leaving his family home, he attended SUNY Purchase on scholarship but quickly dropped out.
After a few years of moving around in the country and taking whatever job came, a friend invited him to sit in a writing course taught at The New School which motivated him to start writing seriously.
In 2010, Torres received his master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
He was a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
He was a recipient of the Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists.
His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author).
Torres was named by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011.
Torres further won the 2012 First Novelist Award for We the Animals.
In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him among their 5 under 35 young fiction writers.
His 2023 novel Blackouts, a historical fiction, dealing with queer identity and historical suppression of LGBT culture, won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction.
In the summer of 2016, Torres was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.
He was a former dog walker and a former employee of McNally Jackson, a bookstore in Manhattan.
Torres is currently an Assistant Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.
He has published short fiction for The New Yorker, Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications, as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.
A film adaptation of We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, where it won the Next Innovator Prize.
