Walter Mosley
Auteur de Le Diable en robe bleue
A propos de l'auteur
Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on January 12, 1952. He graduated from Johnson State College in Vermont. His first book, Devil in a Blue Dress, was published in 1990, won a John Creasy Award for best first novel, and was made into a motion picture starring Denzel Washington in afficher plus 1995. He is the author of the Easy Rawlins Mystery series, the Leonid McGill Mystery series, and the Fearless Jones series. His other works include Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, 47, Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, and Twelve Steps toward Political Revelation. He has received numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Walter Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, the novels "Blue Light" and "RL's Dream", and two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, "Always Outnumbered", "Always Outgunned", for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and "Walkin' the Dog". He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Awards and the founder of the PEN American Center's Open Book Committee. At various times in his life he has been a potter, a computer programmer, & a poet. He was born in Los Angeles & now lives in New York. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Crédit image: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007
Séries
Œuvres de Walter Mosley
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow (2008) — Auteur — 202 exemplaires
Workin' on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (Library of Contemporary Thought) (2000) — Auteur — 135 exemplaires
The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (2012) 76 exemplaires
Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (1999) — Editor, Introduction & Contributor — 64 exemplaires
Folding the Red Into the Black: Developing a Viable Untopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century (2016) 28 exemplaires
Merge 3 exemplaires
Siete casos (Negra) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaire
The Mask of Sanity 1 exemplaire
Ostatnie dni Ptolemeusza Greya 1 exemplaire
Little Brother 1 exemplaire
Love Machine: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion 1 exemplaire
Easy Rawlins Collection (1-10) 1 exemplaire
The Firekeeper 1 exemplaire
[No title] 1 exemplaire
Black Dog {story} 1 exemplaire
Mosley Walter 1 exemplaire
Lavanda (in Gli occhi della paura) 1 exemplaire
Pet Fly [short story] 1 exemplaire
Alien Script: Coloring Book 1 exemplaire
The Man Who Cried I Am 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (2004) — Contributeur — 552 exemplaires
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Contributeur — 531 exemplaires
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributeur — 446 exemplaires
Moisson noire 2004 : Les meilleures nouvelles policières américaines 2004 (2003) — Contributeur — 205 exemplaires
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributeur — 181 exemplaires
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributeur — 138 exemplaires
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributeur — 62 exemplaires
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers (2009) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires
Shades Of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors (2004) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (2003) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Left Coast Crimes: A Collection of Short Stories — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Mosley, Walter Ellis
- Date de naissance
- 1952-01-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Victory Baptist day school
Alexander Hamilton High School
Goddard College
Johnson State College (BA|1977) - Professions
- novelist
- Organisations
- Crime Writers of Color (cofounder)
- Prix et distinctions
- O. Henry Award (1996)
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (2001)
Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award (2006)
New York Writers Hall of Fame (2013)
Langston Hughes Medal (2014)
Edgar Award (2019) (tout afficher 14)
National Book Foundation Medal (2020)
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (2007, 2009, 2014, 2021)
Sankofa Freedom Award (2022)
Robert Kirsch Award (2019)
Anisfield Wolf Award (1998)
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (2016)
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2020)
Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger (2023)
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 105
- Aussi par
- 45
- Membres
- 23,726
- Popularité
- #884
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 766
- ISBN
- 892
- Langues
- 17
- Favoris
- 87
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