Justin Torres

Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist. In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. 2Early life Justin Torres was born to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent. He has a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. 2Career His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author). In the summer of 2016, Torres was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. A movie version of We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, is slated to premiere in 2017. Torres was also chosen by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 201