Victor LaValle’s most recent novel is?The Changeling. It has been named one of the 10 Best Books of 2017 by?Time Magazine?and?USA Today?and was a Notable Book of the Year by the?New York Times,?The San Francisco Chronicle?and more. He is also the author is?Slapboxing with Jesus,?The Ecstatic,?Big Machine,?The Devil in Silver, and?The Ballad of Black Tom. He is also the writer/creator of a comic book,?Destroyer. His awards include the Whiting Writers Award, a USA Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award and a British World Fantasy Award among others.

News

Writing

Professor Victor LaValle '98 Contributes to Marvel Comics' 'Marvel's Voices: Legacy (2022) #1'

March 04, 2022
Marvel Comics recently published Marvel’s Voices: Legacy (2022) #1, with contributions from Associate Professor and alumnus Victor LaValle ‘98.


Writing

'Eve,' New Comic Book Series by Professor Victor LaValle, Coming This Spring

February 26, 2021
Boom! Studios recently announced that Eve, a new five-issue original comic book series by Associate Professor and alumnus Victor LaValle '98 and artist Jo Mi-Gyeong, will be released in May of 2021.?


Writing

Marvel Comics to Publish 'Sabretooth' by Professor Victor LaValle

November 22, 2021
The first comic in the new series?Sabretooth?by Associate Professor and alumnus?Victor LaValle?‘98 will be released by Marvel Comics on January 5, 2022.


Writing

This Is Who We Are: Victor LaValle

February 19, 2021
This Is Who We Are is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making during a pandemic.?


Events

Malcolm Hansen ’14 and Professor Victor LaValle ’98 Sit Down to Discuss Writing and the Multiracial Experience

March 02, 2020
Beyond Black and White: Writing about the Multiracial Experience, organized by Our Word and Columbia Artist/Teachers (CA/T), took place on February 25th, 2020 at the Lenfest Centre for the Arts.

Victor LaValle discusses 'Sabretooth' on X-Men Mondays

January 31, 2022

Listen to "Ep 68: Uncanny X-Men 317 & X-Men 37 - The Phalanx Covenant Finale!" on Spreaker.

New Generation of Writers of Color Reckon with H.P. Lovecraft's Racism

August 12, 2020








(c) Teddy Wolff
Concentration Head, Fiction
Associate Professor, Writing
On Leave 2022-2023 Academic Year
Writing Alumnus 1998

Contact Info

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212.854.3774
[email protected]
http://www.victorlavalle.com/