Alan Moore is a magician and performer, and is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen, for which he won the Hugo Award. He was born in 1953 in Northampton, UK, and has lived there ever since.Victor LaValle is the author of The Changeling and The Ballad of Black Tom, among many other books. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Shirley Jackson Award, and an American Book Award.