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Victor LaValle


USA flag (b.1972)

Victor LaValle, born February 3, 1972, was raised in Flushing and Rosedale, Queens. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and received his M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University. He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Columbia University.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection 'Slapboxing with Jesus' and two novels, 'The Ecstatic' and 'Big Machine'.

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

He can be kind of hard to reach.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Ecstatic (2002)
   Big Machine (2009)
   The Devil in Silver (2012)
   The Changeling (2017)
   Lone Women (2023)
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Collections
   Slapboxing with Jesus (1999)
   2017 Hugo Finalist Bundle (2017) (with others)
   Reimagining Lovecraft (2017) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Victor LaValle recommends
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins (2024)
P Djèlí Clark
"P Djèlí Clark couldn't write a bad book if he tried."
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A Better World (2024)
Sarah Langan
"A Better World is truly fantastic. A moving portrait of a woman trying to save her family in a poisoned world. Mordant wit, insightful social commentary, and so much heart, Sarah Langan has written a gloriously humane novel."
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Victim (2024)
Andrew Boryga
"Victim is going to hurt some people's feelings. But that's exactly what smart, insightful social satire is meant to do. Andrew Boryga's dazzling debut novel is the story of a hustler whose game is to benefit from the struggles of other people. He's an identity politics confidence man. And yet he's also someone you come to care about, and worry for, as the stakes of his hustle grow and grow. This is a fearless and ambitious debut."

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Anthologies containing stories by Victor LaValle
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Chiral Mad 5 (2022)
(Chiral Mad, book 5)
edited by
Michael Bailey
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Small Odysseys (2022)
Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories
edited by
Hannah Tinti

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Awards
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book nominee (2003) : The Ecstatic
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (2017) : The Ballad of Black Tom
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2018) : The Changeling
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2018) : The Changeling


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