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Walter Mosley

(b.1952)

Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 34 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 21 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in New York City.

Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction

Series

Easy Rawlins
   1. Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
   2. A Red Death (1991)
   3. White Butterfly (1992)
   4. Black Betty (1994)
   5. A Little Yellow Dog (1996)
   6. Gone Fishin' (1997)
   7. Bad Boy Brawly Brown (2001)
   8. Six Easy Pieces (2003)
   9. Little Scarlet (2004)
   10. Cinnamon Kiss (2005)
   11. Blonde Faith (2007)
   12. Little Green (2013)
   13. Rose Gold (2014)
   14. Charcoal Joe (2016)
   15. Blood Grove (2021)

Socrates Fortlow
   1. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1997)
   2. Walkin' the Dog (1999)
   The Right Mistake (2008)

Fearless Jones
   1. Fearless Jones (2001)
   2. Fear Itself (2003)
   3. Fear of the Dark (2006)

Leonid McGill
   0.5. Karma (2011)
   1. The Long Fall (2008)
   2. Known to Evil (2010)
   3. When the Thrill is Gone (2011)
   4. All I Did Was Shoot My Man (2012)
   5. And Sometimes I Wonder About You (2015)
   6. Trouble Is What I Do (2020)

Crosstown to Oblivion
   Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin (omnibus) (2012)
   Merge / Disciple (omnibus) (2012)
   Stepping Stone / The Love Machine (omnibus) (2013)

Novels

   RL's Dream (1995)
   Blue Light (1998)
   The Greatest (2000)
   The Man in My Basement (2004)
   47 (2005)
   The Wave (2006)
   Fortunate Son (2006)
   Killing Johnny Fry (2006)
   Diablerie (2007)
   The Tempest Tales (2008)
   The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2010)
   Parishioner (2012)
   Odyssey (2013)
   The Further Tales of Tempest Landry (2015)
   Inside a Silver Box (2015)
   Down the River unto the Sea (2018)
   John Woman (2018)

Omnibus

The Walter Mosley Omnibus (1995)

Collections

Futureland (2001)
The Awkward Black Man (2020)

Plays

The Fall of Heaven (2011)

Novellas

   Whispers in the Dark (2000)
   Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore (2014)
   Jack Strong (2014)
   Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (2016)

Series contributed to

Best American Short Stories (with Katrina Kenison)
The Best American Short Stories 2003 (2003)

Transgressions (with Joyce Carol Oates)
Chasing Shadows (2006)

Anthologies edited

Black Genius (1999)

Non fiction

   Working on the Chain Gang (2000)
   What Next (2003)
   Life Out of Context (2005)
   This Year You Write Your Novel (2007)
   Conversations with Walter Mosley (2011)
   Twelve Steps Toward Political Revelation (2011)
   Folding the Red Into the Black (2016)
   The Elements of Fiction Writing (2019)

Awards

	Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1993) : White Butterfly
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (2006) : 47
	Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2006) : Cinnamon Kiss
	Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (2019) : Down the River unto the Sea

Walter Mosley recommends

Perdition U.S.A. (1996)
(Ivan Monk, book 2)
Gary Phillips
"It takes a certain kind of hard-boiled hero... Ivan Monk is that hero."

The Virgin of Flames (2007)
Chris Abani
"Chris Abani reveals Los Angeles as we have never seen it before - magical and crumbling, a place of deserted rooftop oases and intersections where new identities are bought and sold. He has rewritten our American story and brought the world into our streets, our most private negotiations and confessions."

The City & the City (2009)
China Miéville
"Daring and disturbing."

Bluebird, Bluebird (2017)
(Highway 59, book 1)
Attica Locke
"Attica Locke's Bluebird, Bluebird reads like a blues song to East Texas with all its troubles over property, race, and love. Taut where it has to be to keep a murder investigation on its toes, this novel is also languid when you need to understand just what would keep a black woman or man in a place where so much troubled history lies. This novel marks Love's (and Hatred's) comings and goings amongst black and white, and all the shades between. Locke's small town murder investigation reveals what lies at the heart of America's confusion over race."

Your House Will Pay (2019)
Steph Cha
"In Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha fearlessly explores the duality of LA's promise and betrayal, its vision of new beginnings and the brutal divisions that cut between race and class. Cha takes her place as one of the city's most eloquent storytellers in this soul-searching illumination of one of the tragedies at the heart of the 1992 LA riots."

Blacktop Wasteland (2020)
S A Cosby
"...S. A. Cosby reinvents the American crime novel. Blacktop Wasteland thrums and races - it's an intoxicating thrill of a ride."

The Other Black Girl (2021)
Zakiya Dalila Harris
"Witty, inventive, and smart, The Other Black Girl goes deeper to take on class privilege, race, and gender in a narrative that slyly plays along the edges of convention. Zakiya Dalila Harris’s debut is a brilliant combustion of suspense, horror, and social commentary that leaves no assumption unchallenged and no page unturned."

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