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Los Angeles, California, USA
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…
Known for
- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story — Self2025
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am — Self2019
- O.J.: Made in America — Self2016
- O.J.: Made in America — Self2016
- Jack Kirby: Story Teller — Self2007
- The Manchurian Candidate — Congressman Rawlins2004
- Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows — Self - Writer2000
- Yesterday's Tomorrows — Self1999
- Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane — Self1998
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- 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
- Award
- Shamus Award
- 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
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