Walter Mosley is the author of 29 books and his work has been
translated into 21 languages. His popular mysteries featuring Easy
Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Recently Easy Rawlins has returned in Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Six Easy Pieces, Little Scarlet and Cinnamon Kiss, a 2006 bestseller. Fear Itself,
the follow-up to Fearless Jones, is part of Mosley's new mystery series featuring
second-hand bookseller Paris Minton and his friend Fearless Jones and was
published July 2003 by Little, Brown.
This has been an exciting year for Mosley: he published Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel; his long-awaited primer on writing, This Year You Write Your Novel; and Blonde Faith, a new installment in the Easy Rawlins series.
Mosley also has created with the City College a new publishing degree program
aimed at young urban residents, the only such program in the country.
Mosley served on the board of directors of the National Book Awards,
and presently serves on the boards of the Full Frame Documentary Film
Festival, the Poetry Society of America and TransAfrica and is past
president of the Mystery Writers of America. Born and raised in Los
Angeles, he now lives in New York City.
On your nightstand now:
Walter Isaacson's Einstein, Demystifying Chemistry and Hex and the City by Simon R. Green
Favorite book when you were a child:
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Your top five authors:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Albert Camus, Langston Hughes, Roger Zelazney and Jack Kirby
Book you are an evangelist for:
Fantastic Four #1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Book you've bought for the cover:
Jewel in the Skull by Michael Moorcock
Book that changed your life:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Favorite line from a book:
"I have wasted my life."--James Wright, from "Lying on a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm"
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez