
Walter Mosley
Writing
Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first black male to receive the honor.
Known for
2025Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
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2019Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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2016O.J.: Made in America
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2007Jack Kirby: Story Teller
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2004The Manchurian Candidate
Congressman Rawlins
2000Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
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1999Yesterday's Tomorrows
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1998Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
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