It's hard to believe,'' he says, ''getting help from someone like Edna O'Brien. Before any of that happened, Mr. Mosley had to tell his wife, Joy Kellman, who is a dancer and choreographer, that he intended to give up computers for writing. A Dozen Works at Once Having begun to write, Mr. Mosley seems unable to do enough of it. He may be working on a dozen pieces at once, ranging from short stories and poems to novels. It has a lot of scope.
Blacks can write in the mainstream now without giving up their distinct voice.
Characteristically, Mr. Mosley approaches what is important with a certain diffidence and a smile. He writes about the many colors of people's bodies as dispassionately as he does about the colors of flowers, clothes or cars - seeing them with the eye of a painter, not of an anthropologist.