Fortunate Son: A Novel (25 page)
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Authors: Walter Mosley
Tags: #Literary, #Race Relations, #Psychological Fiction, #Male friendship, #General, #Psychological, #Social Classes, #Suspense, #Thrillers, #Suspense Fiction, #Fiction, #Conduct of Life
Walter Mosley is the author of numerous bestselling works of fiction and nonfiction, including the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries. The first Easy Rawlins novel,
Devil in a Blue Dress,
was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. Another novel,
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned,
for which Mosley received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, was made into an HBO feature film starring Laurence Fishburne. His first novel for young adult readers,
47,
was published in 2005. Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles and lives in New York.