Award-Winning Author To Speak At Adelphi

Adelphi University is pleased to welcome award-winning author Walter Mosley, who will deliver Adelphi's Diamandopoulos Lecture, "Bearing Witness," on Monday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Adelphi's Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City. The lecture is open and free to the public.

Best known for his popular mysteries featuring private investigator Easy Rawlins, Walter Mosley transcends the conventional boundaries of fiction writing. His first Rawlins novel, Devil in a Blue Dress, was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling Bad Boy Brawly Brown, Black Betty, and Little Scarlet, among others.

Mr. Mosley is the founder of the publishing program at the City College of New York. He is the first African American to serve on the National Book Foundation's board of directors. He also serves on the boards of The Poetry Society of America and TransAfrica. His essays often examine ways in which the African American perspective can contribute to political, economic, and social progress in America. One of his short stories from, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned: The Socrates Fortlow Stories (1997), won an O'Henry Award. He received a 2002 Grammy for the liner notes accompanying Richard Pryor's And It's Deep Too! The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings. In 2004, he was bestowed with the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Sundance Risktaker Award.

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