Known For
Writing
Born
Jan 12, 1952
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
19 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Lowdown
Writer
The Man in My Basement
Novel
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Self
Justified: City Primeval
Consulting Producer
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Executive Producer
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self
Snowfall
Writer
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 - Writer
The Middle Passage
Dialogue
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
Always Outnumbered
Executive Producer
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
Self
Devil in a Blue Dress
Novel
Fallen Angels
Story
The South Bank Show