She also considers the possible roots of Mosley's enduring popularity with a diverse group of readers. Larson examines how Mosley's writing interrogates, complicates, and contextualizes recurring moral, social, and even personal questions. In Understanding Walter Mosley, Jennifer Larson considers Mosley's corpus as a whole to help readers more fully understand the evolution of his literary agenda.Īll Mosley's texts feature his trademark accessibility as well as his penchant for creating narratives that both entertain and instruct.
Mosley has since written more than forty books across an impressive expanse of genres including, but not limited to, nonfiction, science fiction, drama, and even young adult fiction, garnering him many honors including an O'Henry Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Grammy Award, a Pen Center Lifetime Achievement Award, and two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction. Walter Mosley is perhaps best known for his first published mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, which became the basis for the 1995 movie of the same name featuring Denzel Washington. A survey of an award-winning author's extensive corpus written across a broad range of genres
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