Please join us in wishing Walter Mosley a happy 62nd birthday today! Walter Ellis Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on this day in 1952. “The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.” ― Walter Mosley Walter Mosley is the author of more than forty books, most notably eleven previous Easy Rawlins mysteries, the first of which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into an acclaimed film starring Denzel Washington. Always Outnumbered was an HBO film starring Laurence Fishburne, adapted from his first Socrates Fortlow novel. A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of Goddard College, he holds an MFA from CCNY and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN Americas Lifetime Achievement Award. More here: knopfdoubleday/author/21423/walter-mosley/
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