In the 17 mysteries in the series, Easy Rawlins has given readers a front-row seat to author Walter Mosley's vision of L.A.'s evolution. Easy navigates the social shifts in Mosley's latest book, "Gray ...

For more than three decades, Walter Mosley has been one of the widest-ranging and most interesting of American writers. Mosley has published science fiction and erotica, nonfiction and children’s ...

Famed fiction author Walter Mosley sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to share details about his latest book in the Easy Rawlins series called “Gray Dawn.” Mosley opens up about the characters in his ...

Back in 1990, a new private eye entered the literary world when Walter Mosley published Devil In A Blue Dress, the first novel in his Easy Rawlins series. Easy is a Black Second World War veteran who ...

FAREWELL, AMETHYSTINE: An Easy Rawlins Mystery. By Walter Mosley. Mulholland Books. 336 pages. $30. It’s 1970 in Los Angeles, and Easy Rawlins has come a long way since Walter Mosley launched his ...

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Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins will be sleuthing his way back to the screen. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television has closed a deal to develop and produce a television series adapted from Walter Mosley’s ...

Walter Mosley in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded March 5, 2025 discussing his two most recent novels, “Been Wrong So Long It Looks Like Right,” a Joe King Oliver novel, and “Farewell, ...

"You had to kill someone white to get any kind of news splash in the '60s," Easy Rawlins says of Los Angeles. In this fifth installment in the Easy Rawlins series ...

LITTLE GREEN: An Easy Rawlins Mystery, by Walter Mosley. Doubleday, 291 pp., $25.95. When we last left Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, he had fallen off the wagon and driven his car over a cliff. This is ...

The 16th novel about the Los Angeles private detective revolves around a missing man and several dangerously beautiful women. Colette is the former books editor for the Tampa Bay Times. She now writes ...

Ask Walter Mosley what he does, and he'll say, simply, "I'm a writer." And he's written a lot: 52 books, about 30 short stories and another 30 or 40 articles, he says. While most writers specialize in ...