In 1992, President Bill Clinton named Walter Mosley as one of his favorite writers.
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"This story [the Easy Rawlin's series] is about this unique character's vision of the world. He grows older, the world changes. After about eight or nine, you can't do it anymore, though, because the character gets older and dies."
"I feel very connected to my father, who was a great storyteller. My father came from the part of Louisiana where the music was Creole, and he didn't grow up with the blues. But he knew the life. . . . I gave a speech recently and told the kind of story that my father would tell, and people came up afterward and recalled storytellers in their own families. I find that, if you're a storyteller, your audience tells most of the story. When I give a reading and describe the white asphalt with lines more...
"A lot of black people read, more than anybody thinks. But the publishing industry is very, very white. We don't only need black people and Chicanos and Native Americans and Asians writing books--we need them editing books, and not only books by members of their own races but other people's books. We need to integrate, and one of the places to do that is where culture is created."
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The son of a Southern black father and a Jewish New Yorker mother, Walter Mosley worked as a computer programmer before dedicating himself to writing. His series of successful mysteries starring detective Easy Rawlins began with "Devil in a Blue Dress", which was made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Mosley has also served on the executive board of the PEN American Center, the board of directors of the National Book Awards, and as president of the Mystery Writers of America.
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01/12/1952 Los Angeles, Southern California, California, Pacific States, Western States, United States,
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I like the fluid structure of this one. There was almost a musical flow to the narration.