USC Fall Literary Festival 2024: Walter Mosley
Acclaimed fiction writer Walter Mosley is best known for his mystery novels, including those featuring detective Easy Rawlins. But his 60+ books span multiple genres including crime, science fiction, literary fiction, political, young adult, nonfiction, instructional, and graphic novels. His short stories and op-ed essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, Playboy and The Nation. He is a recipient of the 2020 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award, the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, and lifetime achievement awards from both PEN America and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The NAACP has honored Mosley a record three times with the Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction. Forthright about race, diversity and equality, he established The Publishing Certificate Program at City University of New York to expand writing courses, internships, and job opportunities for all communities.
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