Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley, 2007

Walter Mosley (born January 12, 1952 in Los Angeles , USA ) is an American writer mainly of detective novels.

Life

Mosley grew up as the child of a Polish-Jewish mother (née Slatkin) and an Afro-American father from Louisiana in Watts , a district of Los Angeles with a traditionally high proportion of black and Hispanic residents. After dropping out in Europe and California, he studied at various colleges and finally graduated in political science. In 1981 he moved to New York . In 1986, at the age of 34, he began to write with the help of his then course instructor Edna O'Brien and four years later published the first of a series of detective novels about the black private investigator Easy Rawlins that made him famous. Many other crime novels followed, but also science fiction and youth books as well as non-fiction and in 2010 a first stage play.

Walter Mosley is considered one of the most prominent representatives of Afro-American culture and now lives in New York .

Honourings and prices

• 1991 CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger for Devil in a Blue Dress (German: Devil in Blue . Knaus, Munich 1992)
• 1991 Shamus Award - Best First Novel dto.
• 2004 Nero Wolfe Award for Fear Itself
• 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award : Grand Master Award (for life's work)
• 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award Category Best Novel - Best Novel for Down the River Unto the Sea

Works

Easy Rawlins series

• 1990 Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Teufel in Blau, German by Thomas Mohr, Knaus: Munich 1992. ISBN 3-8135-0997-4
• 1991 A Red Death
  • Red Death, German by Thomas Mohr, Knaus: Munich 1993. ISBN 3-8135-0944-3
• 1992 White Butterfly
  • The white butterfly, German by Dietlind Kaiser; Knaus: Munich 1995. ISBN 3-8135-2432-9
• 1994 Black Betty
  • Black Betty, German by Dietlind Kaiser; Knaus: Munich 1996. ISBN 3-8135-2621-6
• 1996 A Little Yellow Dog
• 1997 Gone Fishing
  • Catching fish, German by Dietlind Kaiser; Knaus: Munich 2001. ISBN 3-8135-0148-5
• 2002 Bad Boy Brawley Brown
  • On astray, German by Rainer Schmidt; Argon: Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-87024-612-X
• 2003 Six Easy Pieces
• 2004 Little Scarlet
  • Little scarlet; German by Uda Strätling; Fischer: Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 3-596-16833-3
• 2005 Cinnamon Kiss
  • Cinnamon Kiss, German by Uda Strätling; Fischer: Frankfurt am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-596-17992-3
• 2007 Blonde Faith
  • Blonde Faith; German by Uda Strätling; Fischer: Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-596-18265-7

Socrates Fortlow series

• 1997 Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
  • Socrates in Watts, German by Pieke Biermann ; Union: Zurich 2000. ISBN 3-293-20166-0
• 1999 Walkin 'the Dog
  • Socrates' World, German by Pieke Biermann; Union: Zurich 2001. ISBN 3-293-00290-0
• The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow

Fearless Jones series

• 2001 Fearless Jones
• 2003 Fear Itself
• 2006 Fear of the Dark

Leonid McGill series

• 2009 The Long Fall
  • Manhattan Karma, German by Kristian Lutze; Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-518-46255-3
• 2010 Known to Evil
  • Wrong place, wrong time, German by Kristian Lutze; Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-518-46287-4
• 2011 When the Thrill Is Gone
  • Until death do us part, German from Peter Torberg ; Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-518-46336-9
• 2012 All I Did Was Shoot My Man
  • Manhattan Fever, German by Kristian Lutze; Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-518-46446-5

Science fiction

• 1998 Blue Light
• 2001 Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
• 2005 The Wave

Youth literature

• 2005 47

Comic

• 2005 Maximum Fantastic Four (with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby )

Other works

• 1995 RL's Dream (novel)
  • Mississippi Blues, German by Dietlind Kaiser, Knaus: Munich 1997. ISBN 3-8135-0046-2
• 1993 The Watts Lion - The New Mystery (anthology)
• 1997 Thick Headed - The Plot Thickens (anthology)
• 2004 The Man in My Basement
• 2005 Walking the Line
• 2006 Fortunate Son
• 2007 Diablerie
• 2008 The Tempest Tales
• 2010 The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray
• 2006 Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel
  • Revenge on Johnny Fry, German by Michael Zauner; Bloomsbury: Berlin 2007. ISBN 3-8270-0690-2

Non-fiction

• 2000 Workin 'on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History
• 2003 What Next: An African American Initiative Toward World Peace
• 2006 Life Out of Context: Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-violent Takeover of the House of Representatives
• 2007 This Year You Write Your Novel

Film adaptations

• 1995 episode Fearless of the television series Fallen Angels , based on Mosley's eponymous story; Director: Jim McBride ; dt. Fearless, my friend , from the series Fallen Engel or Perfect Crimes , broadcast on arte 1996
• 1995 Devil in Blue , directed by Carl Franklin
• 1998 Always Outnumbered , (TV movie), directed by Michael Apted
• 2007 Little Brother , (Episode 5 in Masters of Science Fiction hosted by Steven Hawking)

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Mosley in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Mosley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Walter Mosley in nndb (English)
• Biographical information on Mosley at twbookmark.com