Praise for Walter Mosley: "A master of craft and narrative . Mosley's talent and memorable characters have captivated readers everywhere." --National Book Foundation "Mosley has more than earned his reputation as the ultimate craftsman - his language is precise, evocative, and poetic, and his stories challenge and satisfy in equal measure." -- CrimeReads "One of contemporary literature's pre-eminent crime novelists . an inveterate investigator and chronicler of his own heart, mind and soul." -- New York Times "When reviewing a book by Walter Mosley, it's hard not to simply quote all the great lines. There are so many of them. You want to share the pleasures of Mosley's jazz-inflected dialogue and the moody, descriptive passages reminiscent of Raymond Chandler at his best.
" -- Washington Post "With Mosley, there's always the surprise factor--a cutting image or a bracing line of dialogue." -- New York Times Book Review "Like being shown a path in the darkness. It spoke to me as a writer, as a Southerner and as a Black person . it gave me 'permission' to write about the people I love." --S.A. Cosby, on Devil in a Blue Dress "[Mosley] has a special talent for touching upon these sticky questions of evil and responsibility without getting stuck in them." -- New Yorker "An astounding performance by a master.
" --Junot Díaz, on The Long Fall "A portal to Los Angeles streets and their vastly different worlds, communities born of disadvantage, and mysteries that highlight universal truths." -- Booklist (starred review), on Gray Dawn "By now, it's tempting to take Mosley's inimitable blend of taut lyricism and evocative landscapes for granted. Don't." -- Kirkus Reviews , on Gray Dawn "The prolific Mosley delights in the wonderfully bizarre . He unfurls into greater and frankly breathtaking complexity." -- New York Times , on The Awkward Black Man "[Near] the recent work of Julian Barnes and Roddy Doyle." -- Wall Street Journal , on The Awkward Black Man "We see [Mosley] as a chronicler of Black life in America." -- Washington Post , on The Awkward Black Man "Tinged with sardonic humor and acerbic observations, many echoing the pained, bristling voices of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin.
" -- New Yorker , on The Awkward Black Man.