Black Betty (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Mosley
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1961
- Setting: Los Angeles, California
- Principal Characters: Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, Saul Lynx, Sarah Cain, Odell Jones, Maudria “Maude” Jones, Jesus Rawlins, Feather Rawlins, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander, Elizabeth “Black Betty” Eady
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Discrimination, Racism, Detectives, Mysteries, Private investigators
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
Since the 1990 publication of his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley has become one of the most acclaimed writers of modern detective fiction. Although he now lives in New York City, Mosley, the son of an African American father and a white Jewish mother, spent his early years in Los Angeles, and it is there that he has set his ambitious series of novels. Drawing on an aspect of the city’s complex history that has been largely ignored—the changing character of the black community in the years since World War II—Mosley has found a setting and a...
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