Although marriage was legal in California, they were refused a marriage license. He was a clerk in the US army during World War II, the army still segregated at the time. Mosley himself was born in California and his mother Ella was Jewish and a personnel clerk while his father Leroy was an African American originally from Louisiana who was a custodian at a Los Angeles public school. His best-selling historical mysteries feature the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, who is a black private investigator as well as World War II veteran currently living in the Watts neighborhood located in Los Angeles, California. He is an American author and novelist who is widely recognized for his works of crime fiction. Walter Ellis Mosley was born on Januin Los Angeles, California. Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York TimesĬalifornia Schemin': The 2020 Bouchercon AnthologyĬrime Hits Home of Stories from Crime Fiction's Top Authors Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
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