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Victor LaValle was born on 3 February, 1972 in New York City, U.S., is an American writer. Discover Victor LaValle'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 52 years old?

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Occupation Author
Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 3 February, 1972
Birthday 3 February
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1970

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.

1972

Victor LaValle (born February 3, 1972) is an American author.

He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and five novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Changeling, and Lone Women.

Victor LaValle was born on February 3, 1972, and raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York by a single mother who had emigrated from Uganda in her twenties.

He attended Woodmere Academy and went on to earn a degree in English from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

1999

Slapboxing with Jesus was published in 1999 by Vintage Books.

2002

The Ecstatic was published in 2002 by Crown Publishing Group.

The novel continues the story of Anthony James, a character from LaValle's collection of stories.

Anthony is a morbidly obese college dropout who may also be experiencing the first signs of schizophrenia.

The novel follows the exploits of his family, who are trying their best to save Anthony, but who might be in need of a little saving themselves.

The subject matter is dark, and even shocking, but a gallows humor runs throughout.

This book received even wider critical acclaim, earning comparisons to writers such as Ken Kesey, Chester Himes, and John Kennedy Toole.

2003

In 2003 the novel was a finalist for both the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.

2009

It became a favorite novel for rapper Mos Def, who later titled his 2009 studio album after it.

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 won 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.

2012

The Devil in Silver, published by Spiegel & Grau in August 21, 2012, is the story of Pepper, a sane man sent for observation to a mental hospital.

There he encounters a monster known as the Devil roaming the nighttime halls.

He teams up with other patients to fight the mental confusion of the drugs he is required to take, the staff, and the monster.

2016

His fantasy-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella.

LaValle writes fiction primarily, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence Magazine, The Fader, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

The Ballad of Black Tom, a novella, was published by Tor Books 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.

2017

The Changeling was published in 2017 by Spiegel & Grau and received critical acclaim.

It was selected as one of 2017's ten best books by New York Public Library and won a 2018 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the 2018 Locus Award for Horror Novel, and the 2018 British Fantasy Award for Horror Novel.

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.

Lone Women, a novel published in 2023 by One World, is written in the western genre with fantastical elements, and set in 1915 Montana.

The story follows protagonist Adelaide Henry, a single woman who, along with a heavy trunk, leaves her family farm in California to establish a homestead in Montana.

LaValle is an associate professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

He lives in New York with his wife, novelist Emily Raboteau, son and daughter.