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| Selection of novels by Walter Mosley |
Walter Mosley appears more than any other novelist in our dataset for the Literary Navigator Device, suggesting that high productivity and genre specialization are closely linked to consistent output over time.
Type “Walter Mosley” in the search bar for the Navigator, click “Novel” for Reading Form and “21st century” for Period of Publication, and the first 29 results will be attributed to fiction by Mosley. Only five authors in our dataset of 21st-century novels have published more than 10 novels: Mosley, Alex Wheatle (13), Percival Everett (13), Eric Jerome Dickey (12), and Tracy Clark (11).
Notably, more than twice as many novels by Mosley as the next closest high-output author appear in the dataset. Mosley primarily publishes detective novels, and his prolific output suggests that genre fiction can facilitate a steady rate of publication.
Mosley’s presence in the dataset highlights how certain genres support long-term productivity. More broadly, the Navigator highlights how a small number of highly prolific writers account for a significant share of novels within 21st-century Black fiction.
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