# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-lavalle
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:28:14.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-lavalle"
name: "Victor LaValle"
slug: "victor-lavalle"
description: "Victor LaValle is an American author. He is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and five novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Changeling, and Lone Women. His fantasy-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for best novella. LaValle writes primarily fiction, though he has also written essays and book reviews for GQ, Essence, The Fader, and The Washington Post."
tagline: "American writer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1972-02-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump