Ithaca College

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present fiction writer Victor LaValle, winner of the PEN Open Book Award, as part of this semester’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. He will read from his most recent novel, The Devil in Silver, at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 12 in Klingenstein Lounge in Campus Center.

The reading is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer period and a book-signing will follow. Refreshments will be served.

Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection Slapboxing with Jesus, which won the PEN Open Book Award; three novels, The Ecstatic, Big Machine, and The Devil in Silver; and an ebook only novella, Lucretia and the Kroons. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the key to Southeast Queens. He graduated with a degree in English from Cornell and an M.F.A. from Columbia. Raised in Queens, LaValle now lives in Washington Heights. He is an Assistant Professor and the Acting Fiction Director at the Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City.

Listen to LaValle talk about monsters, mental illness, hip-hop, and writing in doughnut shops on NPR's Fresh Air. You can also read an excerpt of The Devil in Silver.

For more information or to request special accommodations, contact Eleanor Henderson at 607-274-3324 or ehenderson@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

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