Rawlins
Americannoun
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The gentle Douglas Gilmour—legal guardian of Patience and a colleague of her late policeman father—is reprised by the very welcome Adrian Rawlins.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
"What makes this question so hard to answer is that direct observations are very sparse in northern Alaska," says Rawlins, extension associate professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences at UMass Amherst.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026
Walter Mosley has penned more than 60 novels in the course of about four decades, but the Easy Rawlins mysteries are arguably his most readily recognized body of work.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
“Instead of a dry week, we’re seeing more like a dry two weeks or three weeks,” Rawlins said.
From Slate • Nov. 12, 2024
“Old Man Rawlins was a bit of a story. See, he was never given a choice in the matter. He had to box, plain and simple.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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