WALTER MOSLEY

Walter Mosley is a black African American author from the 1990s to the present. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins. Some of his works include: Devil In a Blue Dress, Gone Fishin', and Fortunate Son. Note that the author made publishing history in 1997 by foregoing an advance so that he could give the manuscript of Gone Fishin' to a small independent publisher (Black Classic Press)!