32-569: American literary award This article is about the American book award. For the British book award, see Nero Book Awards . The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack , a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout . The Nero Award is presented annually at
64-475: A "black author". Mosley has said that he prefers to be called a novelist . He explains his desire to write about "black male heroes", saying "hardly anybody in America has written about black male heroes. There are black male protagonists and black male supporting characters, but nobody else writes about black male heroes." In 2019, after working in the writers room for the television series Snowfall , Mosley
96-1326: A Demon" (1961) "Kill Now—Pay Later" (1961) "Eeny Meeny Murder Mo" (1962) "Blood Will Tell" (1963) "Murder Is Corny" (1964) "Assault on a Brownstone" (1985, posthumously published early draft of "Counterfeit for Murder") Adaptations Film Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) The League of Frightened Men (1937) Radio The Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1943–44) The Amazing Nero Wolfe (1945) The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe (1950–51) Nero Wolfe (1982) Television Nero Wolfe (1977) Nero Wolfe (1981) The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000) Nero Wolfe (2001–02) Novels by Robert Goldsborough Murder in E Minor (1986) Death on Deadline (1987) Fade to Black (1990) Related Black Orchid Novella Award Nero Award The Wolfe Pack Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nero_Award&oldid=1254964921 " Categories : Mystery and detective fiction awards Nero Wolfe Nero Award winners Nero Award–winning works Hidden categories: CS1 errors: periodical ignored Articles with short description Short description
128-755: A Doxy (1966) The Father Hunt (1968) Death of a Dude (1969) Please Pass the Guilt (1973) A Family Affair (1975) Novellas and short stories "Bitter End" (1940) "Black Orchids" (1941) "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" (1942) "Not Quite Dead Enough" (1942) "Booby Trap" (1944) "Help Wanted, Male" (1945) "Instead of Evidence" (1946) "Before I Die" (1947) "Man Alive" (1947) "Bullet for One" (1948) "Omit Flowers" (1948) "Door to Death" (1949) "The Gun with Wings" (1949) "Disguise for Murder" (1950) "The Cop-Killer" (1951) "The Squirt and
160-818: A Will (1940) The Silent Speaker (1946) Too Many Women (1947) And Be a Villain (1948) The Second Confession (1949) In the Best Families (1950) Murder by the Book (1951) Prisoner's Base (1952) The Golden Spiders (1953) The Black Mountain (1954) Before Midnight (1955) Might as Well Be Dead (1956) If Death Ever Slept (1957) Champagne for One (1958) Plot It Yourself (1959) Too Many Clients (1960) The Final Deduction (1961) Gambit (1962) The Mother Hunt (1963) A Right to Die (1964) The Doorbell Rang (1965) Death of
192-459: A fireable offence but said no further action would be taken and asked that he not use the word, again, outside of a script. Mosley chose to leave the series, quitting without informing Kurtzman, and he explained his decision in an op-ed for The New York Times , in September 2019. He did not identify Discovery as the series he was working on in the op-ed, but this was confirmed, in reports on
224-486: A mentor and encouraged him, saying: "You're Black, Jewish, with a poor upbringing; there are riches, therein." Mosley still resides in New York City . He says that he identifies as both African-American and Jewish, with strong feelings for both groups. Mosley started writing at 34 and claims to have written every day, since, penning more than forty books and often publishing two books a year. He has written in
256-629: A political science degree at Johnson State College . Abandoning a doctorate in political theory, he started work programming computers . He moved to New York, in 1981, and he met the dancer and choreographer , Joy Kellman, whom he married in 1987. Kellman, like Mosley's mother, was Jewish. They separated, ten years later, and were divorced in 2001. While working for Mobil Oil , Mosley took a writing course at City College in Harlem , after being inspired by Alice Walker 's book The Color Purple . One of his tutors, there, Irish writer Edna O'Brien , became
288-508: A variety of fiction categories, including mystery and afrofuturist science fiction , as well as nonfiction politics. His work has been translated into 21 languages. His direct inspirations include the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett , Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler . Mosley's fame increased in 1992 when presidential candidate Bill Clinton , a fan of murder mysteries, named Mosley as one of his favorite authors. Mosley made publishing history, in 1997, by forgoing an advance to give
320-1662: Is Dead Jane Langton 1985 Sleeping Dog Dick Lochte 1986 Murder in E Minor Robert Goldsborough 1987 The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond Charlotte MacLeod 1988 1989 1990 no award presented 1991 Coyote Waits Tony Hillerman 1992 A Scandal in Belgravia Robert Barnard 1993 Booked to Die John Dunning 1994 Old Scores Aaron Elkins 1995 She Walks These Hills Sharyn McCrumb 1996 A Monstrous Regiment of Women Laurie R. King 1997 The Poet Michael Connelly 1998 Sacred Dennis Lehane 1999 The Bone Collector Jeffery Deaver 2000 Coyote Revenge Fred Harris 2001 Sugar House Laura Lippman 2002 The Deadhouse Linda Fairstein 2003 Winter and Night S. J. Rozan 2004 Fear Itself Walter Mosley 2005 The Enemy Lee Child 2006 Vanish Tess Gerritsen 2007 All Mortal Flesh Julia Spencer-Fleming 2008 Anatomy of Fear Jonathan Santlofer 2009 The Tenth Case Joseph Teller 2010 Faces of
352-587: Is an American novelist , most widely recognized for his crime fiction . He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins , a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles , California. They are, perhaps, his most popular works. In 2020, Mosley received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, making him
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#1732786682888384-650: Is different from Wikidata Articles with hCards Nero Book Awards The Nero Book Awards are British literary awards, inaugurated in 2023. They are run by coffeehouse chain Caffè Nero in partnership with the Booksellers' Association , Brunel University London and Right To Dream, "a football community dedicated to expanding people's understanding of excellence through football". The awards are made in four categories: children's fiction, fiction, debut fiction, and non-fiction. A short list of four
416-462: Is drawn up for each category, and category winners are chosen, receiving £5,000. There is then a further selection process before one of the category winners is awarded the £30,000 "Golden Nero" award as "Book of the year". The awards are open to books published in the UK and Ireland, and at the time of entry the author must be alive and have been resident in the UK or Ireland for three years. The criteria for
448-526: The 2015 Nero Award" . Crimespree Magazine . Archived from the original on 2016-02-15 . Retrieved 2024-05-09 . ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients" . The Wolfe Pack . 2016-12-04. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2019-06-07 . ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients" . The Wolfe Pack . 2017-12-02. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2019-06-07 . ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients" . The Wolfe Pack . 2018-12-01. Archived from
480-757: The Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City. Winners [ edit ] Year Title Author Reference 1979 The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling Lawrence Block 1980 Burn This Helen McCloy 1981 Death in a Tenured Position Amanda Cross 1982 Past, Present and Murder Hugh Pentecost 1983 The Anodyne Necklace Martha Grimes 1984 Emily Dickinson
512-600: The Gone Brad Parks 2011 Bury Your Dead Louise Penny 2012 Though Not Dead Dana Stabenow 2013 Dead Anyway Chris Knopf 2014 Murder as a Fine Art David Morrell 2015 Peter Pan Must Die John Verdon 2016 Night Life David C. Taylor 2017 With Six You Get Wally Al Lamanda 2018 August Snow Stephen Mack Jones 2019 Down
544-750: The Monkey" (1951) "Home to Roost" (1952) "This Won't Kill You" (1952) "Invitation to Murder" (1953) "The Zero Clue" (1953) "When a Man Murders" (1954) "Die Like a Dog" (1954) "The Next Witness" (1955) "Immune to Murder" (1955) "A Window for Death" (1956) "Too Many Detectives" (1956) "Christmas Party" (1957) "Easter Parade" (1957) "Fourth of July Picnic" (1957) "Murder Is No Joke" (1958), expanded as "Frame-Up for Murder" (1958) "Method Three for Murder" (1960) "Poison à la Carte" (1960) "The Rodeo Murder" (1960) "Counterfeit for Murder" (1961) "Death of
576-670: The River unto the Sea Walter Mosley 2020 One Good Deed David Baldacci 2021 Fortune Favors the Dead Stephen Spotswood 2022 Tower of Babel Michael Sears 2023 The Day He Left Frederick Weisel References [ edit ] ^ Wexler, Ellyn (2013-04-17). "North Bethesda welcomes literature's mystery maven" . Maryland Gazette . Archived from
608-666: The Second World War. His parents tried to marry in 1951, and while the union was legal in California, where they were living, no one would give them a marriage license . Mosley was an only child, and he ascribes his writing imagination to "an emptiness in my childhood that I filled up with fantasies.” For $ 9.50 a week, he attended the Victory Baptist day school, a private African-American elementary school that held pioneering classes in black history . When he
640-546: The awards are described as: "Our judges will be asked to choose the books they would most want to press into the hands of friends and family for their quality and readability." For the 2023 awards, announced in 2024 for books published predominantly in 2023, the timeline was: A similar pattern of eligibility and submission dates has been announced for the 2024 awards. Overall winner for each year show in boldface. Category winners indicated by highlighted row. Walter Mosley Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952)
672-487: The first Black man to receive the honor. Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California . His mother, Ella ( née Slatkin ), was Jewish and worked as a personnel clerk. Her ancestors had immigrated from Russia. His father, Leroy Mosley (1924–1993), was an African American from Louisiana who was a supervising custodian at a Los Angeles public school . He had worked as a clerk in the segregated US army , during
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#1732786682888704-532: The manuscript of Gone Fishin' to a small, independent publisher, Black Classic Press in Baltimore , run by former Black Panther Paul Coates . Mosley's first published book, Devil in a Blue Dress , was the basis of a 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington , and the following year, a 10-part abridgement of the novel by Margaret Busby , read by Paul Winfield , was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 . The world premiere of Mosley's first play, The Fall of Heaven ,
736-444: The original on 2013-07-04 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients" . The Wolfe Pack . 2013-04-17. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2013-12-12 . ^ "Congratulations to David Morrell!!!" . The Poisoned Pen . 2014-12-14. Archived from the original on 2023-06-10 . Retrieved 2024-05-09 . ^ Lynch, Jeremy (2015-12-07). " Peter Pan Must Die wins
768-600: The original on 2013-10-04 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ Elizabeth Haynes (2011-01-19). Crime Writers: A Research Guide . pp. 75, 44, 85, 30, 88, 110 & 56 respectively. ISBN 978-1591589143 . LCCN 2010047200 . OCLC 657596152 . OL 24903387M . Archived from the original on 2024-05-09 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . {{ cite book }} : |work= ignored ( help ) ^ "Lee Child And Suzanne Collins Surpass One Million Kindle Books Sold" . Business Wire . TheStreet.com . 2011-06-06. Archived from
800-464: The original on 2012-03-16 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ "Awards: The Nero Award" . D4EO Literary Agency. Archived from the original on 2013-04-28 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ "Middlesex author wins Nero Award" . Southside Sentinel . 2010-12-06. Archived from the original on 2016-02-03 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ Onatade, Ayo (2011-12-07). "Shotsmag Confidential: Crime fiction news!" . Shots. Archived from
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864-803: The original on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2023-05-08 . ^ "Wolfe Pack Nero Award Recipients" . The Wolfe Pack . 2023-03-23. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06 . Retrieved 2023-05-08 . External links [ edit ] Official website v t e Nero Wolfe Creator Rex Stout Characters Nero Wolfe Archie Goodwin Nero Wolfe supporting characters Novels Fer-de-Lance (1934) The League of Frightened Men (1935) The Rubber Band (1936) The Red Box (1937) Too Many Cooks (1938) Some Buried Caesar (1939) Over My Dead Body (1940) Where There's
896-524: The original on 2016-03-04 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ Fisher, Ali (2011-12-05). "Monday Fun Day!" . Macmillan Library. Archived from the original on 2016-03-06 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ Klouda, Naomi (2013-04-17). "Stabenow sets $ 1 million goal for women writers' retreat" . Homer Tribune . Archived from the original on 2013-04-27 . Retrieved 2013-05-01 . ^ Selbig, Aaron (2012-12-10). "Stabenow's 'Though Not Dead' Wins 2012 Nero Award" . KBBI . Archived from
928-399: Was 12, his parents moved from South Central to the more comfortable, working-class west LA . He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School , in 1970. Mosley describes his father as a deep thinker and storyteller, a "black Socrates.” His mother encouraged him to read European classics, from Dickens and Zola to Camus . He also loves Langston Hughes and Gabriel García Márquez . He
960-404: Was hired, by Alex Kurtzman , for a similar role on the third season of Star Trek: Discovery . After working on the series for three weeks, Mosley was notified by CBS of a complaint made against him by another member of the writers room for Mosley's use of the word " nigger ", while telling a story about his experience with a police officer who had used the slur. CBS told Mosley this was usually
992-572: Was largely raised in a non-political family culture, although there were racial conflicts flaring throughout L.A., at the time. He later became more highly politicized and outspoken about racial inequalities in the US , which are a context of much of his fiction. Mosley went through a "long-haired hippie" phase, drifting around Santa Cruz and Europe. He dropped out of Goddard College , a liberal arts college in Plainfield, Vermont , and then, he earned
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1024-751: Was staged at the Playhouse in the Park , Cincinnati, Ohio , in January 2010. Mosley has served on the board of directors of the National Book Awards . He is on the board of the TransAfrica Forum . Former literature professor Harold Heft argued for Mosley's inclusion in the literary canon of Jewish-American writers. In Moment magazine, Johanna Neuman writes that black literary circles questioned whether Mosley should be considered
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