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Best-Selling Mystery Writer Paula L. Woods Named
2005-2006 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing At Pomona
College
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Award-winning mystery writer Paula L. Woods, author of the
acclaimed Charlotte Justice mystery series, has been named
the 2005-2006 Moseley Fellow in Creative Writing at Pomona
College. As the Moseley Fellow, Woods will teach the
advanced creative writing course “Mean Streets: Writing and
Reading Mystery Fiction” in spring 2006.
Woods launched her Charlotte Justice mystery series with the
book Inner City Blues (1999), whose lead character is
a smart, tough African American homicide detective in the
Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Robbery-Homicide
Division. Inner City Blues was on the Los Angeles
Times bestseller list for three weeks and was named by
the newspaper as one of the Best Books of 1999. The second
installment in the series, Stormy Weather was named one of
the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times and
the Florida Sun Sentinel. Dirty Laundry, the
third novel, was recognized by both of those papers and the
Seattle Times. Woods is also the editor of the
critically acclaimed anthology Spooks, Spies and Private
Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction of the 20th
Century (1995).
The Moseley Fellowship is made possible through funding from
the Louisa and Francis Moseley Memorial Instruction Fund.
The Fund was created in 1985 from an estate gift from
Francis and Louisa Moseley and used primarily "to support
efforts of the English Department of the College to improve
writing of students."
The fellowship is in its fifth year. Previous Pomona College
Moseley Fellows include: Verlyn Klinkenborg, an acclaimed
essayist, author and a regular contributor to the New
York Times; Salvador Carrasco, writer and director of
the feature film The Other Conquest; poet B.H.
Fairchild, author of Early Occult Memory Systems of the
Lower Midwest and Janet Fitch, author of White
Oleander.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
colleges, provides its students with a challenging
curriculum in the humanities, natural sciences, social
sciences, and fine arts, and an unsurpassed environment for
intellectual inquiry and growth. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona Colleges, visit www.pomona.edu.
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