# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-mosley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:32.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-mosley"
name: "Walter Mosley"
slug: "walter-mosley"
description: "Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hardboiled detective Easy Rawlins, a private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him the first Black man to receive the honor."
tagline: "American novelist (born 1952)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-01-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump