Walter Mosley to Headline 2025 NH Book Festival!
The New Hampshire Book Festival is thrilled to announce that Walter Mosley is our 2025 Keynote Author!
Walter Mosley is the beloved author of 60 critically acclaimed books of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and plays. Mosley is best known for his character Easy Rawlins, who first appeared in Mosley’s first novel, Devil in a Blue Dress.
He’s had several books adapted for film and TV, including Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, starring Samuel Jackson, and The Man in My Basement, starring Willem Dafoe.
Mosley’s many awards include an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy, several NAACP Image awards, and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020 he was named the recipient of the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award from the National Book Foundation. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mosley now lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
And there’s more: NHBF is also excited to announce that Mosley will be in conversation with bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. Ryan is the author of 16 psychological thrillers. She’s won five Agatha Awards, five Anthony Awards, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. As on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, she’s won an unprecedented thirty-seven Emmy Awards, as well as many more journalism honors. A past president of National Sisters in Crime, a founder of Mystery Writers of America University, and a board member of International Thriller Writers, Ryan lives in Boston. Her newest novel is the cat-and-mouse suspense All This Could Be Yours. People Magazine calls it “a nail-biting thriller.”
Walter Mosley’s keynote will take place Friday evening, October 3, in Capitol Center for the Arts’ Chubb Theater in downtown Concord, NH. Tickets will go on sale in early June. Watch this space: Details coming soon!