# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/justin-torres
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:31:22.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/justin-torres"
name: "Justin Torres"
slug: "justin-torres"
description: "Justin Torres is an American novelist and an associate professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical debut novel We the Animals (2011), which was also an Edmund White Award finalist and an NAACP Image Award for Debut Author nominee. The novel has been adapted into a film of the same title and was awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Torres' second novel, Blackouts, won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Justin_Torres_-_All_in_the_Family.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1980"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.14
  momentum:             4.176904176904176
  historical:           5.714402666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Torres"
    title: "Justin Torres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جاستن توريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جاستن توريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Torres"
    title: "Justin Torres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Torres"
    title: "Justin Torres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Torres"
    title: "Justin Torres"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16210947"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump