Attica Locke
Attica Locke | |
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Northwestern University School of Communication | |
Genre | Fiction, television, film |
Relatives | Tembi Locke (sister) |
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Attica Locke (born 1974 in
Houston, Texas
) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.
Career
Locke graduated from
20th Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, and DreamWorks. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama Empire.[4] Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Netflix's When They See Us and the Hulu adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere.[5][6][7]
In 2021, it was announced that Locke would serve as executive producer and showrunner for the Netflix Limited Series From Scratch, an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke's 2019 memoir entitled From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home.[8][9] It premiered on Netflix in October 2022.
In 2023, she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer.[10]
Personal life
Locke was born in
Houston, Texas, to parents who were active in the civil rights movement at the turn of the 1970s. They named her after the 1971 Attica Prison rebellion in upstate New York.[11]
She now lives in
Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.[4] Actress Tembi Locke is her older sister.[12][13]
She is a member of the
Writers Guild of America, West
.
Bibliography
- Black Water Rising (2009), HarperCollins
- The Cutting Season (2012), Dennis Lehane / HarperCollins
- Pleasantville (2015), HarperCollins
- Bluebird, Bluebird (2017), Mulholland Books
- Heaven, My Home (2019), New York Times article "The Best Crime Novels of the Year".[14]
Awards
NominationsFor Bluebird, Bluebird:
For Pleasantville:
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For The Cutting Season:
For Black Water Rising:
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References
- ^ Samuels Gibbs, Adrienne (Spring 2020). "The Write Path". Northwestern Magazine. Northwestern University. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
- ^ Lopez, Steve (July 19, 1999). "Sundance Summer". Time.
- ^ Weems, Wendy (July 7, 2017). "Attica Locke on Murder and Race in East Texas". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ a b "About", Attica Locke website.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ^ Jefferson, Nathan (October 31, 2019). "Justice and Forgiveness: On Attica Locke's 'Heaven, My Home' - LARB". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ^ Brown, Evan Nicole (2 November 2022). "The Sisterhood Behind Netflix's 'From Scratch': "There's Something Here That Has the Potentiality to Heal a Lot of Hearts"". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Petski, Denise (February 22, 2021). "Nzingha Stewart To Direct Netflix Limited Series 'From Scratch'". Deadline. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
- ^ "RSL International Writers | 2023 International Writers". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ^ Laity, Paul (September 15, 2017). "Attica Locke: 'When Trump was elected, overnight my book changed. I didn't alter a word'". The Guardian.
- ^ Jackson, Leigh-Ann (October 21, 2019). "Attica and Tembi Locke on Texas Memories, Dealing With Writer's Block, and the Joy of Luby's". Texas Monthly. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- ^ Complex, Valerie (25 October 2022). "Scene 2 Seen Podcast: Sisters Tembi & Attica Locke Discuss Adapting 'From Scratch' From Book To Screen And Working With Reese Witherspoon". Deadline.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ^ "2020 Shortlist". Staunch Book Prize. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- ^ Indiebound.org
Further reading
- Dansby, Andrew (August 13, 2020). "Houston author Attica Locke on capturing the tumult of contemporary America". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Attica Locke.
- Attica Locke's website
- Attica Locke at IMDb