![]() ![]() Because you know for a long time we weren't published. We don't have a history in the literature. In his own reading, Mosley noted of people of color, "A lot of our histories are left out of the fiction. But I know that I was confident enough in the language that I could follow it." In essence, Mosley jumped into Easy's shoes and discovered the mystery alongside his protagonist.Īs improvisational as the process was, writing Devil in a Blue Dress helped Mosley define a mission for himself as a black writer. And the book I knew was in there, but I didn't know what that book would be. ![]() It just was." Mosley began his writing journey with the novel's first sentence: "I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy's bar." Mosley explains that after he produced the book's opening sentence, his writing process for the novel was an improvisation. When I wrote Devil in a Blue Dress, I didn't know it was going to be a mystery. Mosley has said that although he has long been enamored of detective fiction, he did not set out to write a mystery series. Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) is Walter Mosley's first novel as well as the first book of the Easy Rawlins mystery series. ![]()
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