Biography
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.
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Filmography
all 18
Movies 12
self 8
Writer 7
TV Shows 6
Producer 1
Consulting Producer
Justified: City Primeval (2023)
TV
Writer
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2022)
TV
Self / Self - Writer
Muhammad Ali (2021)
TV
Self
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
Movie
Writer / Teleplay
Snowfall (2017)
TV
9
Self
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
TV
Self
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
Movie
Self
Jack Kirby: Story Teller (2007)
Movie
Congressman Rawlins
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Movie
6
Self - Writer
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)
Movie
Writer
The Middle Passage (2000)
Movie
Self
Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999)
Movie
Writer
Always Outnumbered (1998)
Movie
Self
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (1998)
Movie
Writer
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Movie
6
Story
Fallen Angels (1993)
TV
Writer
The Man in My Basement
Movie
Writer
Little brother
Movie
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1952-01-12 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States of America
ReligionJudaism
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsCWA New Blood Dagger, Cartier Diamond Dagger, Edgar Awards, Nero Award, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction, Langston Hughes Medal, Grammy Award for Best Album Notes, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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