Walter Mosley
- Writing
- January 12, 1952 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Lowdown · Writer, Consulting Producer
- The Man in My Basement · Novel, Screenplay
- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story · Self
- Justified: City Primeval · Consulting Producer
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey · Novel, Executive producer
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am · Self
- Snowfall · Writer, Teleplay
- O.J.: Made in America · Self
- O.J.: Made in America · Self
- Jack Kirby: Story Teller · Self
- The Manchurian Candidate · Congressman Rawlins
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows · Self
- The Middle Passage · Dialogue
- Yesterday's Tomorrows · Self
- Always Outnumbered · Executive producer, Teleplay
- Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane · Self
- Devil in a Blue Dress · Novel, Associate Producer
- Fallen Angels · Story
- The South Bank Show