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Mosley has received multiple honors including The Anisfield Wolf Award (for works that increase the appreciation and understanding of race in America), finalist for the NAACP Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s Literary Award, O.1 movie and 2 TV series have come from his works.He has 11 books in the Easy Rawlins series, 3 in the Fearless Jones series, 4 in the Leonid McGill series, 5 science fiction novels, 3 Socrates Fortlow books, 1 young adult novel, 6 other novels, 2 erotica, 5 non-fiction books, and 1 graphic novel.He often publishes 2 books a year and his work has been translated into 21 different languages.Mosley started writing at age 34 and is still writing to this day.Mosley attended Goddard College, a liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vermont but dropped out and later earned a political science degree at Johnson State College.

The school strongly valued education on black history.

Mosley attended a private African-American elementary school, Victory Baptist day school.

Growing up Mosley was an only child and credits his writing imagination to “an emptiness in my childhood that I filled up with fantasies.”.

His parents tried to marry in 1951 and though the union was legal, no one would give them a marriage license.

His father was an African American from Louisiana.

His mother was Jewish and immigrated from Russia.