Victor LaValle is the author of eight works of fiction- five novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, an American Book Award, two Bram Stoker Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation and Publishers Weekly, among others. The Devil in Silver is soon to be a major TV series. He lives in the Bronx with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University.
Praise for The Devil in Silver * : * A fearless exploration of America's heart of darkness...A dizzying high-wire act. * Washington Post * Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious. * Los Angeles Times * It's simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two. * New York Times * Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America's inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic. * Boston Globe * LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. . . . A striking and original American novelist. * The New Republic * Praise for Victor LaValle * : * LaValle hooks the reader deep into his increasingly eldritch thriller. * Guardian * Wonderfully creepy and impossible to put down. * Buzzfeed *