In 2007’s Blonde Faith, set in 1967, Easy Rawlins drove drunkenly off a cliff in what his creator indicated was likely his last appearance. Now, after two months of sliding in and out of consciousness ...

In 1990's Devil in a Blue Dress, author Walter Mosley introduced readers to Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a black World War II veteran and detective in Los Angeles. Mosley's newest novel, Blonde Faith, is ...

Walter Mosley talks about how his fictional hero frees himself from wage labor through America’s favorite side hustle: landlording. Credit...Richard A. Chance Supported by By Conor Dougherty Conor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famed fiction author Walter Mosley sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to share details about his latest book in the Easy Rawlins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

"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 ...

It’s 1970 in Los Angeles, and Easy Rawlins has come a long way since Walter Mosley launched his series about this Black private detective with “Devil in a Blue Dress.” In that first novel, published ...

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 ...

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