Walter Mosley
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Award-Winning Author Walter Mosley to Speak at
Adelphi University on April 16, 2007
Garden City, NY
March 2, 2007
Adelphi University is pleased to welcome award-winning author Walter Mosley, who will deliver Adelphi’s Diamandopoulos Lecture, “Bearing Witness,” on Monday, April 16, 2007, at 7:30 PM in Adelphi’s Ruth S. Harley University Center Ballroom, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. 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.
For more information about this and other events on campus, please visit www.adelphi.edu, or call the Cultural Events Hotline at 516.877.4555.
About Adelphi University: Adelphi University, chartered in 1896, was the first institution of higher education for the liberal arts and sciences on Long Island. Through its schools and programs—The College of Arts and Sciences, the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, the Honors College, Adult Undergraduate Program in University College, and the Schools of Business, Education, Nursing, and Social Work—the co-educational university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as professional and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls more than 8,200 students from 41 states and 63 foreign countries. With its main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and Poughkeepsie, the University maintains a commitment to liberal studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation and active citizenship.
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