Walter Mosley
Autor/a de Devil in a Blue Dress
Sobre l'autor
Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 1952. He graduated from Johnson State College in Vermont. His first book, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1990, won a John Creasy Award for best first novel, and was made into a motion picture starring Denzel Washington in mostra'n més 1995. He is the author of the Easy Rawlins Mystery series, the Leonid McGill Mystery series, and the Fearless Jones series. His other works include Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, 47, Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, and Twelve Steps toward Political Revelation. He has received numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, the novels "Blue Light" and "RL's Dream", and two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, "Always Outnumbered", "Always Outgunned", for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and "Walkin' the Dog". He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Awards and the founder of the PEN American Center's Open Book Committee. At various times in his life he has been a potter, a computer programmer, & a poet. He was born in Los Angeles & now lives in New York. (Publisher Provided) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Sèrie
Obres de Walter Mosley
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow (2008) — Autor — 202 exemplars
Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (Library of Contemporary Thought) (2000) — Autor — 134 exemplars
The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (2012) 77 exemplars
Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (1999) — Editor, Introduction & Contributor — 63 exemplars
Folding the Red Into the Black: Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century (2016) 26 exemplars
Merge 3 exemplars
The Mask of Sanity 1 exemplars
Ostatnie dni Ptolemeusza Greya 1 exemplars
Little Brother 1 exemplars
Love Machine: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion 1 exemplars
Easy Rawlins Collection (1-10) 1 exemplars
The Firekeeper 1 exemplars
[No title] 1 exemplars
Black Dog {story} 1 exemplars
Mosley Walter 1 exemplars
Lavanda (in Gli occhi della paura) 1 exemplars
Pet Fly [short story] 1 exemplars
Alien Script: Coloring Book 1 exemplars
The Man Who Cried I Am 1 exemplars
Obres associades
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (2004) — Col·laborador — 550 exemplars
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Col·laborador — 526 exemplars
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Col·laborador — 179 exemplars
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Col·laborador — 138 exemplars
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Col·laborador — 73 exemplars
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Col·laborador — 62 exemplars
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers (2009) — Col·laborador — 53 exemplars
Shades Of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors (2004) — Col·laborador — 46 exemplars
Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (2003) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Left Coast Crimes: A Collection of Short Stories — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Mosley, Walter Ellis
- Data de naixement
- 1952-01-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
- Educació
- Victory Baptist day school
Alexander Hamilton High School
Goddard College
Johnson State College (BA|1977) - Professions
- novelist
- Organitzacions
- Crime Writers of Color (cofounder)
- Premis i honors
- O. Henry Award (1996)
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (2001)
Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award (2006)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2013)
Langston Hughes Medal (2014)
Edgar Award (2019) (mostra-les totes 14)
National Book Foundation Medal (2020)
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (2007, 2009, 2014, 2021)
Sankofa Freedom Award (2022)
Robert Kirsch Award (2019)
Anisfield Wolf Award (1998)
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (2016)
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2020)
Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger (2023)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
First Novels (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Library TBR (1)
Page Turners (1)
to get (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 104
- També de
- 45
- Membres
- 23,577
- Popularitat
- #891
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 766
- ISBN
- 891
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 87