Fiction Reading and Conversation
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The best-selling author of 30 books whose work has been translated into 21 languages, Walter Mosley is best known for his gritty Easy Rawlins mysteries. These popular mysteries began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990. Others in the series include A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog. Easy Rawlins returned again with Bad Boy Brawly Brown and Six Easy Pieces. Fear Itself, the follow-up of Fearless Jones, Mosley's new mystery series featuring second-hand bookseller Paris Minton and his friend Fearless Jones was published July 2003 by Little Brown. The Man in My Basement, a novel of ideas set in contemporary time in a Long Island community, was published in January 2004. Little Scarlet, an Easy Rawlins novel set five days after the 1965 Watts riots, was published in July 2004. In 2005, Mosley published his first book for young adult readers, 47, an ingenious mix of history, science fiction, and adventure, and Cinnamon Kiss, an Easy Rawlins novel that was also a New York Times bestseller. 2006 brought a return to science fiction with The Wave, as well as Fortunate Son. His latest release is The Tempest Tales; his next book, The Right Mistake will be published this fall. |
