Walter Mosley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Walter Mosley
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1952(1952-01-12)
Age	72
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Capricorn

Walter Mosley Biography

Walter Mosley is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 12, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, United States. American novelist, best well-known by the Easy Rawlins series of mystery novels. The novel Devil in a Blue Dress was made into a movie with American novelist best known for his Easy Rawlins series of mystery novels. His novel Devil in a Blue Dress was turned into a film starring Denzel Washington..

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Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) 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 and living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California; they are perhaps his most popular works.

He was an only child and ascribes his writing imagination to “an emptiness in my childhood that I filled up with fantasies”. For $9.50 a week, Walter Mosley attended the Victory Baptist day school, a private African-American elementary school that held pioneering classes in black history. When he was 12, his parents moved from South Central to more comfortably affluent, working-class west LA. He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in 1970. Mosley describes his father as a deep thinker and storyteller, a “black Socrates”. His mother encouraged him to read European classics from Dickens and Zola to Camus. He also loves Langston Hughes and Gabriel García Márquez. He was largely raised in a non-political family culture, although there were racial conflicts flaring throughout L.A. at the time. He later became more highly politicised and outspoken about racial inequalities in the US, which are a context of much of his fiction.

His wife was Joy Kellman from 1987 to 2001.

Walter Mosley Net Worth

Walter Mosley is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Walter Mosley 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born within Los Angeles and moved to New York, where he wrote in City College in Harlem.

He was awarded a variety of awards for his work . He was admitted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame in 2013.

Mosley was born in California. His mother, Ella (born Slatkin), was Jewish and worked as a personnel clerk; her ancestors had immigrated from Russia. His father, Leroy Mosley (1924–1993), was an African American from Louisiana who was a supervising custodian at a Los Angeles public school. He had worked as a clerk in the segregated US army during the Second World War. His parents tried to marry in 1951 but, though the union was legal in California where they were living, no one would give them a marriage license.

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Who is Walter Mosley Dating?

According to our records, Walter Mosley married to Joy Kellman. As of December 1, 2023, Walter Mosley’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2019, after working in the writers room for the series Snowfall, Mosley was hired by Alex Kurtzman for a similar role on the third season of Star Trek: Discovery. After working on the series for three weeks, Mosley was notified by CBS of a complaint made against him by another member of the writers room for Mosley’s use of the word “nigger” while telling a story. CBS told Mosley this was usually a fireable offence, but said no further action would be taken and asked that he not use the word again outside of a script. Mosley chose to leave the series, quitting without informing Kurtzman and Paradise and explaining his decision in an op-ed for The New York Times in September 2019. He did not identify Discovery as the series he was working on in the op-ed, but this was confirmed in reports on the op-ed shortly after its release.

Facts & Trivia

Walter Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Walter Mosley celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.

Is Walter Mosley a black man?

Almost 60 books (including 15 staring Easy Rawlins) and several awards later, Mosley has earned an imposing place in Black literature. Last week, he was awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. The first Black man to achieve that high honor.

Which Walter Mosley book should I read first?

Blue Light (1998): Walter’s science fiction debut, set in the Bay Area, concerns an otherworldly blue light that transforms many of the novel’s characters into heightened versions of themselves. The story follows the characters as they grapple with their newfound abilities and mental health issues.

What happened to Walter Mosley?

Mosley still resides in New York City. Mosley says that he identifies as both African-American and Jewish, with strong feelings for both groups.

How many Easy Rawlins books did Walter Mosley write?

Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins
Nationality| American

Is Walter Mosley married?

Joy Kellman