Walter Mosley

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9

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-01-12 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Walter Mosley

Biography

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.

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Production

2023
Justified: City Primeval as Consulting Producer
2022
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey as Executive Producer
1998
Always Outnumbered as Executive Producer
1995
Devil in a Blue Dress as Associate Producer

Writing

The Man in My Basement as Novel
2022
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey as Novel
2017
Snowfall as Writer
2017
Snowfall as Teleplay
2000
The Middle Passage as Dialogue
1998
Always Outnumbered as Novel
1998
Always Outnumbered as Teleplay
1995
Devil in a Blue Dress as Novel
1993
Fallen Angels as Story
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