Awards & Winners

Walter Mosley

Date of Birth 12-January-1952
Place of Birth Los Angeles
(Southern California, Los Angeles County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Walter Ellis Mosley
Profession Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Film Producer
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 hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; they are perhaps his most popular works.

Awards by Walter Mosley

Check all the awards nominated and won by Walter Mosley.

2014


Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Little Green

2013


Nominations 2013 »

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Edgar Award for Best Novel All I Did Was Shoot My Man

2010


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Honored for : The Long Fall

Nominations 2010 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction The Long Fall

2009


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Honored for : The Long Fall

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction The Long Fall
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional This Year You Write Your Novel
Little, Brown & Company

2008


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
Honored for : Blonde Faith

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Blonde Faith
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Instructional This Year You Write Your Novel

2007


Nominations 2007 »

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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Fortunate Son

2006


Nominations 2006 »

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Prometheus Award for Best Novel 47
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel Cinnamon Kiss
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Cinnamon Kiss

2005


Carl Brandon Kindred Award
Honored for : 47

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Barry Award for Best Novel Little Scarlet

2002


Nominations 2002 »

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Locus Award for Best Collection Walter Mosley
Locus Award for Best Short Story Little Brother

2001


Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
Honored for : ...And It's Deep Too!
(Tie)

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes ...And It's Deep Too!

1998


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

1994


Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story The Watt's Lion

1993


Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Novel White Butterfly

1991


CWA New Blood Dagger
Honored for : Devil in a Blue Dress
Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel
Honored for : Devil in a Blue Dress

Nominations 1991 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel Devil in a Blue Dress
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author Devil in a Blue Dress