Walter Mosley is the author of twenty-three critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages.
His popular mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Others in the series include A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog.
In 2005, Mosley published 47, which was his first book for young adult readers, as well as Cinnamon Kiss, an Easy Rawlins novel which was a New York Times bestseller. Mosley has written three works of literary fiction, including 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.
His short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and Savoy, among others. His nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and he was an editor and contributor to the book Black Genius. He is the guest editor for The Best American Short Stories of 2003.
He has won numerous awards including the Anisfield Wolf Award, the 1996 Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Literary Award, an O'Henry Award, and a "Risktaker Award" from the Sundance Institute. He was also a finalist for the NAACP Award in Fiction.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York City.
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