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Walter Mosley

Autor(a) de Devil in a Blue Dress

104+ Works 23,577 Membros 766 Críticas 87 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Image credit: Credit: David Shankbone, Sept. 2007

Séries

Obras por Walter Mosley

Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) 2,579 exemplares
A Red Death (1991) 933 exemplares
White Butterfly (1992) 870 exemplares
Little Scarlet (2004) 820 exemplares
The Man in My Basement (2004) 789 exemplares
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (2010) 771 exemplares
The Long Fall (2009) 756 exemplares
A Little Yellow Dog (1996) 701 exemplares
Bad Boy Brawly Brown (2002) 700 exemplares
Fearless Jones (2001) 671 exemplares
Cinnamon Kiss (2005) 625 exemplares
Blonde Faith (2007) 535 exemplares
Black Betty (1994) 506 exemplares
Blue Light (1998) 483 exemplares
47 (2005) 471 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2003 (2003) — Editor — 467 exemplares
Futureland (2001) 465 exemplares
RL's Dream (1995) 458 exemplares
Black Betty + Gator Green (2002) 455 exemplares
Fortunate Son (2006) 454 exemplares
Walkin' the Dog (1999) 451 exemplares
Fear Itself (2003) 428 exemplares
Known to Evil (2010) 427 exemplares
Gone Fishin' (1997) 422 exemplares
Down the River unto the Sea (2018) 415 exemplares
Fear of the Dark (2006) 365 exemplares
This Year You Write Your Novel (2007) 362 exemplares
Little Green (2013) 355 exemplares
Six Easy Pieces (2003) 350 exemplares
All I Did Was Shoot My Man (2012) 294 exemplares
When the Thrill Is Gone (2011) 294 exemplares
The Wave (2005) 285 exemplares
Gone Fishin'/Smoke (1998) 271 exemplares
Charcoal Joe (2016) 264 exemplares
Rose Gold (2014) 248 exemplares
Killing Johnny Fry (2006) 247 exemplares
Diablerie (2008) 201 exemplares
Blood Grove (2021) 159 exemplares
John Woman (2018) 157 exemplares
Trouble Is What I Do (2020) 154 exemplares
Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore (2014) 150 exemplares
And Sometimes I Wonder About You (2015) 149 exemplares
The Awkward Black Man: Stories (2020) 131 exemplares
The Tempest Tales (2008) 129 exemplares
Every Man a King (2023) 116 exemplares
Elements of Fiction (2019) 82 exemplares
Inside a Silver Box (2015) 75 exemplares
Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems (1999) — Editor, Introduction & Contributor — 63 exemplares
Touched (2023) 47 exemplares
Life Out of Context (2005) 44 exemplares
The Gift of Fire (2012) 13 exemplares
The Thing: The Next Big Thing (2022) 12 exemplares
The Greatest (2000) 12 exemplares
Whispers in the Dark (2000) 12 exemplares
Odyssey (2013) 9 exemplares
Transgressions 2: Three Brand New Novellas (UK Edition) (2006) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Karma {story} (2011) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Transgressions, Volume One [audio] (2005) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Fall of Heaven (2011) 4 exemplares
Disciple (2012) 4 exemplares
Cinnamon Kiss / Fear Itself (2005) 4 exemplares
On the Head of a Pin (2012) 4 exemplares
Merge 3 exemplares
Farewell, Amethystine (2024) 2 exemplares
The Thing (2021-) #1 (of 6) (2021) 2 exemplares
The Thing (2021-) #5 (of 6) (2022) 1 exemplar
The Mask of Sanity 1 exemplar
Buscando problemas (2022) 1 exemplar
Little Brother 1 exemplar
The Thing (2021-) #2 (of 6) (2021) 1 exemplar
The Thing (2021-) #4 (of 6) (2022) 1 exemplar
The Thing (2021-) #3 (of 6) (2022) 1 exemplar
The Firekeeper 1 exemplar
[No title] 1 exemplar
Black Dog {story} 1 exemplar
Mosley Walter 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Stories: All-New Tales (2010) — Contribuidor — 1,382 exemplares
The Silent Speaker (1946) — Introdução, algumas edições982 exemplares
The Expendable Man (1963) — Posfácio, algumas edições494 exemplares
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contribuidor — 444 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2000 (2000) — Contribuidor — 393 exemplares
The Plot Thickens (1997) — Contribuidor — 329 exemplares
Transgressions {ten novellas} (2005) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
Unexpected Stories (2014) — Introdução, algumas edições237 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 204 exemplares
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (2005) — Contribuidor — 199 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (1998) — Contribuidor — 177 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (2006) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (2013) — Introdução — 152 exemplares
Dangerous Women (1998) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (2002) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
OxCrimes (2014) — Contribuidor — 75 exemplares
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Transgressions, Volume 3 (U.S. Edition) (2006) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
The Darker Mask : Heroes from the Shadows [Anthology] (2008) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table (2007) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics (2010) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
The Perfect Crime (2022) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir (2017) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Best American Political Writing 2006 (2006) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2023) — Prefácio — 33 exemplares
Crime Hits Home (2022) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (2003) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Black Pulp (2013) — Introdução — 17 exemplares
The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 (2023) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
The Atria International Book of Mysteries (2012) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Middle Passage (2003) — Autor — 4 exemplares
Left Coast Crimes: A Collection of Short Stories — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Apex Magazine 95 (April 2017) (2017) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Journeys (1996) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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I enjoyed Fear Itself by Walter Moseley and spending more time with Paris and Fearless and their friends and enemies. I felt a little lost as the con game revealed itself but I was discovering it along with our heroes. Moseley’s carefully crafted world plays a role as well as the deep understanding of the worth of a Black man in that world. But Paris and Fearless have carved out a place for themselves and can even use the police to their own advantage now and then. Looking forward to the third book in the series.… (mais)
 
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witchyrichy | 7 outras críticas | Feb 27, 2024 |
Mosley on a roll. You can't go wrong.
 
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ben_r47 | 16 outras críticas | Feb 22, 2024 |
I liked this one even better than its predecessor, Down the River Unto the Sea. Sharp, biting, racially charged, and twisty plot. Definitely a series to keep reading.
½
 
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TadAD | 2 outras críticas | Feb 15, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
104
Also by
45
Membros
23,577
Popularidade
#891
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
766
ISBN
891
Línguas
17
Marcado como favorito
87

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