Walter Mosley
Writing
1952-01-12 · 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 Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first black male to receive the honor.
Filmography
The Lowdown
2025 · Series
The Man in My Basement
2025 · Movie
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
2025 · Movie
Justified: City Primeval
2023 · Series
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
2022 · Series
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019 · Movie
Snowfall
2017 · Series
O.J.: Made in America
2016 · Series
O.J.: Made in America
2016 · Movie
Jack Kirby: Story Teller
2007 · Movie
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Movie
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000 · Movie
The Middle Passage
2000 · Movie
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999 · Movie
Always Outnumbered
1998 · Movie
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
1998 · Movie
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995 · Movie
Fallen Angels
1993 · Series
The South Bank Show
1978 · Series