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Walter Mosley

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Also known as Walter Ellis Mosley

American novelist (born 1952)

Person · Open Library

Born
1952
Works
98

Top works

  • Rubia peligrosa
  • Six easy pieces
  • Une mort en rouge
  • A Red Death (Easy Rowlins Mysteries)
  • Dangerous Women

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1952-01-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
207
Total plays
2,544

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Quotes

  • Lawyer even sounds like liar.
  • The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.
  • "There was a period of time where all the books in the world could fit on this shelf,' Walter Mosley said. He was pointing at one modest-size row of books in his Brooklyn home ..."And what people did is they read them over and over again, and they knew them so well, and they learned so much, and it changed them. Now, this shelf represents one second of publishing."
  • The DC world was: There’s good and bad, and it’s an absolute thing. But Marvel had characters like the Sub-Mariner, who was a hero to his people and a villain to the surface world. I can have good and bad thoughts, basically. And I loved it. I’ve always loved it.
  • When you run into Hammett and his political history, you see that he’s explaining what’s wrong with society, the crime of society itself. And how can you be a hero inside that?
  • There was a desire — it wasn’t a marketing desire, it was ‘I want everybody to read this and to understand it no matter what level they’re at in their own education.’ Robert E. Howard was very well educated, knew a lot of stuff, but you didn’t have to know that to read Conan.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Walter
Family name
Mosley
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Los Angeles
Occupation
actor
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Religion
Judaism
Official website
www.waltermosley.com
Image
Walter Mosley (21972).jpg
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influenced by
Dashiell Hammett
Commons category
Walter Mosley
date of birth
1952-01-12
start of work period
1990-00-00
writing language
English language
Sources (12)

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