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Walter Mosley is an American author, most widely recognized for his crime fiction.
* He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins.
* Mosley started writing at 34 and claims to have written every day since, penning more than forty books and often publishing two books a year.
* He has written in a variety of fiction categories, including mystery and afrofuturist science fiction, as well as nonfiction politics.
* His work has been translated into 21 languages.
* His direct inspirations include the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler.
* Mosley's fame increased in 1992 when presidential candidate Bill Clinton, a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors.
* In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first Black man to receive the honor.
* Mosley is a prolific and acclaimed author who has made significant contributions to American literature.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

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Writing

Walter Mosley

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

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Inspirational

Walter Mosley

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

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Love

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