Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of January 12th.
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It is the 12th day of the year, leaving 353 days remaining in 2022.
He is best known as a crime-fiction/mystery novelist, although he also delves into science fiction and short stories, as well as non-fiction books.
Many of his novels have Black protagonists; in 1990, he introduced Easy Rawlins to the world in his first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress. Rawlins is an unwilling, inlicensed private detective in the segregated Los Angeles of the 1940s and 1950s. Mosley characterizes his creation as a man who "is always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles."
And while Mosley would rather be described simply as a novelist, he also says it is important to have strong, Black men as the heroes in novels and other writings.
"Hardly anybody in America has written about Black male heroes," he told Moment Magazine in 2010. "There are Black male protagonists and Black Male supporting characters. But nobody else writes about Black male heroes."
He has written more than 50 books. His debut novel was made into a movie in 1995, starring Denzel Washington.
Mosley has won four NAACP Image Awards, an O. Henry Award, and an Edgar Award for best novel for Down the River Unto the Sea. In 2018, he received an honorary National Book Award for his prodigious and compelling output. In 2016, the Mystery Writers Association of American gave him its Grand Masters Award. In 2020, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the first Black man to receive the honor.
He makes his home in New York City.
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