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Walter Mosley
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 d…
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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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2025
The Lowdown
TV show Writer
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2025
The Man in My Basement
Movie Novel
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2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Movie Self
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2023
Justified: City Primeval
TV show Consulting Producer
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2022
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Movie Self
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2017
Snowfall
TV show Writer
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2016
O.J.: Made in America
TV show Self
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2016
O.J.: Made in America
Movie Self
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2007
Jack Kirby: Story Teller
Movie Self
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2004
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie Congressman Rawlins
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2000
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
Movie Self - Writer
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2000
The Middle Passage
Movie Dialogue
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1999
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Movie Self
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1998
Always Outnumbered
Movie Executive Producer
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1998
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane
Movie Self
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1995
Devil in a Blue Dress
Movie Novel
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1993
Fallen Angels
TV show Story
