Victor LaValle

• The Ballad of Black TomVictor LaValle, Gökçe Çiçek

  

  The Ballad of Black Tom

  Victor LaValle, Gökçe Çiçek

  2016★ 3.8

• The ChangelingVictor LaValle

  

  The Changeling

  Victor LaValle

  2017★ 3.8

• Big MachineVictor LaValle

  

  Big Machine

  Victor LaValle

  2009

Awards

• ✦Hugo Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (nominee)
• ✦Nebula Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (nominee)
• 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2018 — Best Novel, The Changeling (winner)
• ✦World Fantasy Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (nominee)
• ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Horror Novel, Lone Women (nominee)
• ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Short Story, We Travel the Spaceways (nominee)
• ✦Locus Awards 2021 — Best Anthology, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (nominee)
• ✦Locus Awards 2020 — Best Anthology, A People's Future of the United States (nominee)
• 🏆Locus Awards 2018 — Best Horror Novel, The Changeling (winner)
• ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (nominee)
• ✦Bram Stoker Awards 2023 — Novel, Lone Women (nominee)
• 🏆Bram Stoker Awards 2018 — Best Graphic Novel (winner)
• 🏆Bram Stoker Awards — Best Graphic Novel, Victor LaValle's Destroyer (winner)
• 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2017 — Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (winner)
• 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2016 — Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (winner)
• 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 — Novel, Big Machine (winner)
• 🏆Shirley Jackson Awards 2009 — Overall (winner)
• ✦Mythopoeic Awards 2018 — Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, The Changeling (nominee)
• 🏆British Fantasy Awards 2018 — August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel, The Changeling (winner)
• 🏆British Fantasy Awards 2017 — Best Novella, The Ballad of Black Tom (winner)
• ✦Ignyte Awards 2020 — Best Anthology/Collected Works, A People's Future of the United States (nominee)

Biography

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection ***Slapboxing with Jesus***, five novels, ***The Ecstatic***, ***Big Machine***, ***The Devil in Silver***, ***The Changeling***, and ***Lone Women***, and two novellas, ***Lucretia and the Kroons*** and ***The Ballad of Black Tom***. He is also the creator and writer of two comic books Victor LaValle's ***Destroyer*** and ***Eve***. His novel, ***The Changeling***, has been adapted for Apple TV+ and is streaming now. He adapted his novel, ***The Devil in Silver***, for AMC and served as its creator and showrunner. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and the key to Southeast Queens. He lives in the Bronx with his wife, the writer Emily Raboteau, and their kids. He serves as the Chair of the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. **Photo** Emily Raboteau ([Source](http://www.victorlavalle.com/))