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	Walter Mosley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is a prominent American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.
		Mosley, who is Black and Jewish, has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a fl private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, which is perhaps his most popular work.
		Mosley holds an honorary doctorate from the City College of New York, is on the Board of Trustees for Goddard College, and has served on the board of directors of the National Book Awards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Mosley (390 words)

	BookPage Interview Month 2001: Walter Mosley
		Mosley has a reputation for weaving this sort of social and political commentary into the background of his novels.
		Mosley, who didn't start writing until he was in his 30s, is also known for the economy and expressiveness of the language he uses.
		Mosley thinks of novels as documents of the history of the time and believes that people are more likely to read a novel for an understanding of a historical period than a history book.
	www.bookpage.com /0106bp/walter_mosley.html (1014 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Mosley's forays into other genres has not kept him from creating two other detective series, the recently inaugurated Fearless Jones series and the Socrates Fortlow stories, which were adapted into Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, an original HBO film starring Laurence Fishburn.
		Mosley's latest book, Futureland, is his second foray into science fiction, a series of nine interconnected stories which reflect on some of the prevailing social issues of our time as they might manifest themselves a few generations into the future.
		In Mosley's vision of the future, the world is controlled by corporations, and individual freedoms have been greatly limited through technology and the changing nature of labor.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue237/interview.html (1884 words)

	Walter Mosley
		Crime novelist Walter Mosley is the author of Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog in the Easy Rawlins mystery series; and RL's Dream, a blues novel.
		Mosley is the past president of the Mystery Writers of America, a member of the executive board of the PEN American Center as well as the National Book Foundation (sponsors of the National Book Awards).
		Mosley's lean and musical vernacular captures the heat and the rhythm of Los Angeles' heart, where danger is the common currency of everyday life.
	aalbc.com /authors/walter.htm (2436 words)

	Bookreporter.com - FEARLESS JONES by Walter Mosley
		Mosley has tried his hand at science fiction and at more "mainstream" fiction, if you will, and has proven himself as capable at both as he is when working in the thriller genre.
		Mosley, despite his extended absence from writing mysteries, shows no rust at all, deftly leading his reader through a tight plot to a convincing and, incidentally, satisfying ending.
		Mosley introduces enough secondary characters and loose ends in FEARLESS JONES to indicate that he might be returning to the environs of 1950s L.A. in the near future.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0316592382.asp (813 words)

	What Next -- Walter Mosley
		Walter Mosley's What Next dares to propose that African Americans can have a voice and play a leading role in creating world peace.
		Mosley's answer did not come from the endless news coverage, but from conversations he had as a child and as an adult with his father.
		Mosley has also written three works of literary fiction, two works of science fiction, a first volume in a new mystery series Fearless Jones, and two works of nonfiction, Workin' on the Chain Gang and Black Genius.
	www.nathanielturner.com /waltermosley.htm (838 words)

	Amazon.de: Blue Light: English Books: Walter Mosley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mosley's narrator, Chance, is not himself a recipient of the heaven-sent beams, but after a blood transfusion from the leader of the Blues, his consciousness expands.
		I have enjoyed all of Walter Mosley's works and was shocked as tried to read this most atypical of his writings.
		Mosley should dance the dance that he knows so well and leave the science fiction(?) to science fiction writers.
	www.amazon.de /Blue-Light-Walter-Mosley/dp/0446606928 (1253 words)

	Amazon.com: 47: Books: Walter Mosley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of Mosley's main purposes in writing this book is to let young fl people hear a voice contrary to society's negative stereotypes regarding their culture and heritage-to assist them in forming pride regarding who they are and where they come from.
		Mosley explores such substantial themes in the first two-thirds of the story, that the most overt science fiction and fantasy elements seem lightweight and clichd by comparison.
		Walter Mosley is likely to capture a new generation of readers and fans with his first book for young adult readers, 47.
	www.amazon.com /47-Walter-Mosley/dp/0316110353 (2690 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Walter Mosley on Writing and History \| PBS
		Not many people had heard of Walter Mosley until one day back in 1992, Bill Clinton announced Mosley was one of his favorite authors.
		Mosley had been a secret pleasure, known only to avid readers.
		Walter Mosley worked as a computer programmer for many years before he published his first novel.
	www.pbs.org /now/arts/mosley.html (957 words)

	index magazine interview
		Walter Mosley, the acclaimed mystery writer, sits behind a large wooden desk in a chair that resembles a medieval oak throne, talking with loud inflections that bounce off the walls.
		Mosley is the king of all his imagination, an imagination that has produced the vivid whiskey-laden scenes of RL's Dream and the character Socrates, and the Easy Rawlins series, which includes Black Betty and Devil in a Blue Dress.
		WALTER: You know, I was in LA recently, watching television, and there was a fl cop and a white reporter, and two young kids from the 'hood — gang bangers, let's say.
	www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/walter_mosley.shtml (3519 words)

	Primer to the mysteries of Walter Mosley
		The author Walter Mosley was born in 1952 Los Angeles, California.
		Walter Mosley's mystery novels have often been compared to those of Raymond Chandler, mainly because they share vivid settings on the seamy side of Los Angeles in the middle decades of the century, a less-than-rosy view of human nature, and tough but noble main characters in Philip Marlowe and
		The sixth published novel is the first Mosley wrote, the first in the series, the first not set in the Watts section of LA, though it is strenghtened by reading it after the first published.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/mosley/mosley_walter_primer.html (663 words)

	A Darker Shade of Noir
		Walter Mosley is a 54-year-old former computer programmer with a BA in political science who must live in fear that he took up writing too late.
		In Mosley, however, the pull isn't the mystery--he's not an especially deft plotter, with denouements that turn on racial ambiguities almost as often as Ross Macdonald's turn on skeletons in the closet, and he doesn't play the puzzler's game of dropping hints about whodunit.
		Fact is, Mosley is biracial--his father, who died in 1993, was "fl," which here in America almost never means 100 percent African, while his mother is white, Jewish with her share of communist relatives.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060508/christgau (1208 words)

	Gale Schools - Black History Month - Biographies - Walter Mosley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mosley was born in southeastern Los Angeles in 1952 and grew up in Watts and the Pico-Fairfax district.
		Mosley mixes the nightmares of Soup's past with the immediate anguish of poverty, chemotherapy, and aging.
		Mosley has demonstrated a willingness to expand his horizons beyond the Easy Rawlins mystery series into the realms of science fiction and social commentary.
	www.galeschools.com /black_history/bio/mosley_w.htm (3094 words)

	Walter Mosley books : Lovereading UK
		Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries; the novels Blue Light, RL's Dream, Futureland, Fearless Jones and Fear Itself; and two collections of stories - Always Outnumbered and Outgunned and Walkin' the Dog.
		Walter Mosley's new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest ever challenge.
		Walter Mosley's crime fiction has made him one of the world's leading fl intellectuals.
	www.lovereading.co.uk /author/200 (969 words)

	Walter Mosley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At a time when much contemporary fiction confines itself to the personal, Walter Mosley creates characters that speak to the universal and reflect on dilemmas that are the moral questions of our time.
		Walter Mosley is the author of tile bestselling Easy Rawlins mysteries, the blues novel RL's Dream and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned which features Socrates Fortlow.
		Walter Mosley is the best known and biggest selling fl American crime writer and author of five other books in the Easy Rawlins series - Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog - as well as a blues novel RL's Dream.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/waltermosley1.html (838 words)

	Gone Fishin by Walter Mosley
		Walter Mosley the creator of that ever-popular character Easy Rawlins has written his sixth novel, "Gone fishin." Mosley is a best-selling author and with a motion picture, "Devil in a Blue Dress" adapted from his novel of the same name starring Denzel Washington as Ezekiel (Easy) Rawlins, the author’s notoriety should be unquestionable.
		In lyrical, easy to understand language Walter Mosley takes readers on a road trip laden with mishaps and conflicts to unveil the history of his characters in "Gone fishin." Easy is the young hero and Mouse, the violent and ruthless sidekick.
		Walter Mosley is an entertaining writer evident by his use of dialogue throughout the novel this coupled with lighting fast plot takes the reader on a journey of discovery along with Easy and Mouse.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/african_american_lit_retired/63967 (495 words)

	Walter Mosley.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WALTER MOSLEY is the author of twenty-three critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages.
		Mosley has also written three works of literary fiction (RL's Dream, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, and Walkin' the Dog), two works of science fiction (Blue Light and Futureland), and two works of nonfiction, (Workin' on the Chain Gang and What Next).
		Mosley served on the board of directors of the National Book Awards, and presently serves on the boards of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, The Poetry Society of America and TransAfrica, and is past-president of the Mystery Writers of America.
	www.twbookmark.com /features/waltermosley/bio.html (619 words)

	Walter Mosley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Mosley’s lean and musical vernacular captures the heat and the rhythm of Los Angeles’ heart, where danger is the common currency of everyday life.
		Walter Mosley, recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, was born in Los Angeles in 1952.
		In 1998, Walter Mosley was awarded the TransAfrica International Literary Prize for the entirety of his work.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/waltermosley.html (1353 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Walter Mosley
		As a mystery writer, Walter Mosley hasn't got a clue, but his Easy Rawlins novels powerfully evoke both the African-American experience in the South and in South-Central L.A. His true models are not Hammett and Chandler but Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
		Mosley is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America, and in 1990, the association selected him for the Shamus Award (one of its highest honors).
		Mosley gives us an insider's view of the life of the African-American Southerners who flocked to California during and after the war with a deep sense of spiritual, family and community values, with a willingness to work hard and, most important, with jobs to work at.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.05.97/cover/mosley1-9723.html (2397 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Easy street
		When Walter Mosley published his first book in 1990, he was 38 years old and working as a computer programmer.
		Mosley: It's one of the three or four places in the country where you don't need a car--where having a car is actually a detriment.
		Mosley: The thing I don't get is this: There's a guy who has a wife and two kids living in Baghdad, and one day bombs start falling.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Oct-21-Thu-2004/24991663.html (2152 words)

	Paula Woods on Walter Mosley
		Meeting Walter was a pleasant surprise—not just because he was gracious and charming to total strangers, but because I hadn’t heard of a fl mystery writer since Chester Himes.
		For throughout the color-coded titles of the series, Walter has created in Easy and his sidekick, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, two of the most fully-realized characters in fiction—intelligent, funny, violent, loving, and heroically flawed in a way I’d never seen fl men, or, one could argue, men of any color portrayed.
		Additionally, Walter evokes a pivotal time and place that has great personal resonance for me—Los Angeles of the 1940s to 1960s, a city traversed by both Walter’s and my own father and a generation of fl immigrants who escaped the terrors of the South for what they hoped would be a new Eden in California.
	www.woodsontheweb.com /Bio/paula_woods_on_walter_mosley.htm (462 words)

	Walter Mosley — www.greenwood.com
		Description: Mosley's first detective novel, Devil in a Blue Dress (1990), established a new voice in detective fiction, offering an African American perspective that resonated to a broad spectrum of readers.
		Mosley's influences, inspirations, obstacles, and successes are presented in a richly drawn biographical chapter, which incorporates the author's most recent interviews.
		This is the only book-length study of Mosley's fiction, covering eight of his key novels, including his most recent, Bad Boy Brawley Brown (2002).
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR2022.aspx (292 words)

	Walter Mosley - A biography of Walter Mosley.
		In the fall of 1997, Mosley introduced a new character, ex-con Socrates Fortlow, whose move to contemporary Los Angeles infuses the episodic tales with ethical and political considerations.
		In 2001 Mosley returned to the mystery world with the debut of the 'Fearless Jones' series, set in 1950's Los Angeles and introducing second-hand bookstore owner Paris Minton and his best friend, war veteran Fearless Jones, the novel is already garnering early praise.
		Mosley also serves on the board of directors of the National Book Awards, The Poetry Society of America, and is past-president of the Mystery Writers of America.
	www.bookbrowse.com /biographies/index.cfm?author_number=636 (1085 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Walter Mosley - Books: Meet the Writers
		Mosley was born in Los Angeles, traveled east to college, and found his way into fiction writing by way of working as a computer programmer, caterer, and potter.
		In 1996 Mosley took a detour into non-genre fiction and wrote R.L.'s Dream, the story of a dying, homeless fl man who is taken in by a troubled young white woman.
		Mosley is an avid potter in his spare time.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=731542 (1205 words)

	NPR : Walter Mosley: 'What Next'
		Morning Edition, March 17, 2003 · Walter Mosley is best known for his entertaining Easy Rawlins mysteries, but with his latest title the author decided to turn his sights on heavier stuff.
		Mosley writes that his father, a fl man, never thought of himself as a full American citizen until German soldiers began shooting at him with the same vengeance that they targeted white GIs.
		A bio of Walter Mosley and excerpts of his mystery books.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1192760 (1845 words)

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