Walter Mosley

GALESBURG – Walter Mosley, one of the most versatile and admired writers in America, is the speaker for the Knox College 2022 Commencement on Sunday, June 5. Mosley is the author of more than 60 critically acclaimed books. His work has been translated into 25 languages. From his acclaimed series of novels featuring the detective Easy Rawlins, to his novel "John Woman," which explored deconstructionist history, and his standalone crime novel "Down the River" and "Unto the Sea,"...

Knox College announced on Tuesday that acclaimed writer Walter Mosley will give the college’s 2022 commencement address. Mosley has authored more than 60 critically acclaimed books, including a series of novels featuring the detective Easy Rawlins. Mosley also won oman an Edgar Award for Best Novel for, “Down the River and Unto the Sea.”

Click here to read the full article. When it came to bringing The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey from the pages of Walter Mosley’s novel to screens on Apple TV+, the writer and star Samuel L. Jackson agree that the long haul – with over a decade of development – due to their commitment to telling the epic story through the long form of television – was worth the wait. Contenders TV — Deadline’s Complete Coverage “Getting some finally done, bringing it to fruition, is an amazing feat, especially something that was this personal for me,” Jackson said during Deadline’s Contenders Television...

Today at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Los Angeles, Apple TV+ held the world premiere event for “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” the highly anticipated limited series executive produced by and starring Oscar-nominated Samuel L. Jackson, and based on the novel by best-selling author Walter Mosley, who adapts the story for the screen and serves as executive producer.

“Sam said we were going to do this, and we just started doing it. He knows that book, at least as well as I do,” explained Walter Mosley, the author of The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, referring to Samuel L. Jackson. The writer also adapted the novel for the Apple TV+ limited series of the same name, which the lead actor executive produced.

Samuel L. Jackson stars in and executive produces Apple TV+’s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, based on the critically acclaimed novel by Walter Mosley. Jackson plays Ptolemy Grey, an elderly gentleman who lives on his own and suffers from dementia. Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah) co-stars as Robyn, an intelligent and thoughtful teenager who becomes Ptolemy’s caretaker.

Walter Mosley talked comics at ComicsXF. The NYPL highlighted a number of materials following up its Pandemic Legacies Conference. At the Los Angeles Review, thoughts on Divya Victor’s Curb. The shortlist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize has been announced. Adrienne Keene shared details of the new book Notable...

Acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley is going to be crisscrossing the Marvel U this fall, but don't worry - he has back-up: the Thing. After becoming one of the most popular living novelists with crime fiction such as the Easy Rawlins books, Mosley makes his comic book debut in a five-issue The Thing series with artist Tom Reilly.

Marvel Recruits Walter Mosley For The Thing’s New Miniseries. Yet another acclaimed novelist is joining the Marvel bullpen, and he’s about to tackle a new solo adventure starring the Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing. Marvel has announced that Walter Mosley will pen a new six-issue miniseries starring Ben Grimm, with the first issue slated to arrive this fall.

Another acclaimed novelist is getting into the Marvel business. Like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Benjamin Percy before him, Walter Mosley, who is primarily known for his mystery and crime fiction but who has written across multiple genres, including science fiction and erotic, is expanding his reach into the Marvel Universe. His six-issue series featuring The Thing will debut this November.

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Note: This article contains spoilers for Snowfall. Franklin Saint is in a world of trouble. We’ve thought that before about Franklin — played adeptly by Damson Idris — the small-time crack dealer turned mogul and unrepentant murderer on FX’s hit drama Snowfall. But, heading into the penultimate episode of season 4, which aired last night, things are about as bad as they can get.

Like the rest of the world, Damson Idris thought he’d only be away from the set of “Snowfall” for about two weeks when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. They’d only shot up to about Episode 4 when they took a hiatus last March. When he stepped...

Keep your eyes open. Don’t blink. Sometimes, that fraction of a second is all you need to miss something. Blink, and you may wonder if it really happened, or if you just think it did. Blink again, and you just don’t know. So keep them peepers open because, as in the new novel “Blood Grove” by Walter Mosley, bad things can happen in a…

Take away the drugs and the crime, and FX’s gritty ’80s crack epidemic drama Snowfall is a show about choices. Not the gray-area choices of wrong from right, because that’s subjective, but the choices about life’s paths and allegiances. This is something the series’ writers and producers explored in the Season 3 finale when viewers got an alternate-universe version of Franklin’s (Damson Idris) life had he gone the collegiate route. Now that Snowfall has returned for Season 4 (airing Wednesdays at 10/9c) after a year-and-a-half-long hiatus lengthened by COVID, fans will get a greater understanding of Franklin and the continual weight of his decisions. This is a Franklin who is trying to still prove his dominance now that he needs a cane to walk, and a man whose ties to the CIA have become even more twisted and compromised.

Easy Rawlins, a character played memorably by Denzel Washington in the criminally underrated Devil in a Blue Dress, is getting his own TV series. Amblin is developing the show with Walter Mosley, the author who created the character. Mosley has authored fourteen novels, and a collection of short stories, starring Rawlins, a Black private eye operating out of Los Angeles between the 1940s and 1960s.

Keep your eyes open. Don’t blink. Sometimes, that fraction of a second is all you need to miss something. Blink, and you may wonder if it really happened, or if you just think it did. Blink again, and you just don’t know. So keep them peepers open because, as in the new novel “Blood Grove” by Walter Mosley, bad things can happen in a ...

Keep your eyes open. Don't blink. Sometimes, that fraction of a second is all you need to miss something. Blink, and you may wonder if it really happened, or if you just think it did. Blink again, and you just don't know. So keep them peepers open because, as in the new novel "Blood Grove" by Walter Mosley, bad things can happen in a...