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Walter Mosley Biography

Walter Mosley is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 12, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, United States. American novelist, best well-known by the Easy Rawlins series of mystery novels. The novel Devil in a Blue Dress was made into a movie with American novelist best known for his Easy Rawlins series of mystery novels. His novel Devil in a Blue Dress was turned into a film starring Denzel Washington..

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Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) 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 and living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works.

He was an only child and ascribes his writing imagination to “an emptiness in my childhood that I filled up with fantasies”. For $9.50 a week, Walter Mosley attended the Victory Baptist day school, a private African-American elementary school that held pioneering classes in black history. When he was 12, his parents moved from South Central to more comfortably affluent, working-class west LA. He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in 1970. Mosley describes his father as a deep thinker and storyteller, a “black Socrates”. His mother encouraged him to read European classics from Dickens and Zola to Camus. He also loves Langston Hughes and Gabriel García Márquez. He was largely raised in a non-political family culture, although there were racial conflicts flaring throughout L.A. at the time. He later became more highly politicised and outspoken about racial inequalities in the US, which are a context of much of his fiction.

His wife was Joy Kellman from 1987 to 2001.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Mosley started writing at 34 and has written every day since, penning more than forty books and often publishing two books a year. He has written in a variety of fiction categories, including mystery and afrofuturist science fiction, as well as non-fiction politics. His work has been translated into 21 languages. His direct inspirations include the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler. Mosley’s fame increased in 1992 when presidential candidate Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors. Mosley made publishing history in 1997 by foregoing an advance to give the manuscript of Gone Fishin’ to a small, independent publisher, Black Classic Press in Baltimore, run by former Black Panther Paul Coates.

Walter Mosley Net Worth

Walter Mosley is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Walter Mosley's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born within Los Angeles and moved to New York, where he wrote in City College in Harlem.

He was awarded a variety of awards for his work . He was admitted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame in 2013.

Mosley was born in California. His mother, Ella (born Slatkin), was Jewish and worked as a personnel clerk; her ancestors had immigrated from Russia. His father, Leroy Mosley (1924–1993), was an African American from Louisiana who was a supervising custodian at a Los Angeles public school. He had worked as a clerk in the segregated US army during the Second World War. His parents tried to marry in 1951 but, though the union was legal in California where they were living, no one would give them a marriage license.

His first published book, Devil in a Blue Dress, was the basis of a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. The world premiere of his first play, The Fall of Heaven, was staged at the Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, in January 2010.

In 2010, there was a debate in academic literary circles as to whether Mosley’s work should be considered Jewish literature. Similar debate has occurred as to whether he should be described as a black author, given his status as a best-selling writer. Mosley has said that he prefers to be called a novelist. He explains his desire to write about “black male heroes” saying “hardly anybody in America has written about black male heroes… There are black male protagonists and black male supporting characters, but nobody else writes about black male heroes.”

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He went through a “long-haired hippie” phase, drifting around Santa Cruz and Europe. Mosley dropped out of Goddard College, a liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vermont, and then earned a political science degree at Johnson State College. Abandoning a doctorate in political theory, he started work programming computers. He moved to New York in 1981 and met the dancer and choreographer Joy Kellman, whom he married in 1987. They separated 10 years later and were divorced in 2001. While working for Mobil Oil, Mosley took a writing course at City College in Harlem after being inspired by Alice Walker’s book, The Color Purple. One of his tutors there, Edna O’Brien, became a mentor to him and encouraged him, saying: “You’re Black, Jewish, with a poor upbringing; there are riches therein.”

Who is Walter Mosley Dating?

According to our records, Walter Mosley married to Joy Kellman . As of December 1, 2023, Walter Mosley’s is not dating anyone.

In 2019, after working in the writers room for the series Snowfall, Mosley was hired by Alex Kurtzman for a similar role on the third season of Star Trek: Discovery. After working on the series for three weeks, Mosley was notified by CBS of a complaint made against him by another member of the writers room for Mosley’s use of the word “nigger” while telling a story. CBS told Mosley this was usually a fireable offence, but said no further action would be taken and asked that he not use the word again outside of a script. Mosley chose to leave the series, quitting without informing Kurtzman and Paradise and explaining his decision in an op-ed for The New York Times in September 2019. He did not identify Discovery as the series he was working on in the op-ed, but this was confirmed in reports on the op-ed shortly after its release.

Facts & Trivia

Walter Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Walter Mosley celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.

Is Walter Mosley a black man?

Almost 60 books (including 15 staring Easy Rawlins) and several awards later, Mosley has earned an imposing place in Black literature. Last week, he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. The first Black man to achieve that high honor.

Which Walter Mosley book should I read first?

Blue Light (1998): Walter’s science fiction debut, set in the Bay Area, concerns an otherworldly blue light that transforms many of the novel’s characters into heightened versions of themselves. The story follows the characters as they grapple with their newfound abilities and mental health issues.

What happened to Walter Mosley?

Mosley still resides in New York City. Mosley says that he identifies as both African-American and Jewish, with strong feelings for both groups.

How many Easy Rawlins books did Walter Mosley write?

Is Walter Mosley married?

Joy Kellman

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