Attica Locke
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Attica Locke | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Houston, Texas, United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, television, film |
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Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.
Career
A graduate of Northwestern University, Locke was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, studying screenwriting and directing.[1][2] She has written scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, 20th Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, and DreamWorks. She was a writer and producer on the Fox drama Empire.[3] Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Netflix’s When They See Us and the Hulu adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere.
Personal life
A native of Houston, Texas, Locke lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband and daughter.
She is member of the Writers Guild of America, West.
Bibliography
- Black Water Rising (2009), Harper Collins
- The Cutting Season (2012), Dennis Lehane / Harper Collins
- Pleasantville (2015), Harper Collins
- Bluebird, Bluebird (2017), Mulholland Books
- Heaven, My Home (2019), Mulholland Books. This book was mentioned in the New York Times article, "The Best Crime Novels of the Year." [4]
Awards
2013 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence – The Cutting Season, (award sponsored by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation; established in 2007 to honor Ernest Gaines' legacy)
2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, 2016 – Pleasantville – the award is sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the American Bar Association Journal.
2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel of the Year – Bluebird, Bluebird
2018 Anthony Award for Best Novel – Bluebird, Bluebird
2018 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award – Bluebird, Bluebird
Nominations
For Bluebird Bluebird:
- 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
For Pleasantville:
- Longlisted for the 2016 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
For The Cutting Season:
- Finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
- Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association
- Long-listed for the Chautauqua Prize
For Black Water Rising:
- Short-listed for the 2010 Orange Prize
- Nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award
- Nominated for a 2010 NAACP Image Award
- 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
- Nominated for a 2009 Strand Magazine Critics Award
- Finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
- Indie Next Pick 2009 & 2010[5]
References
- ^ Lopez, Steve (July 19, 1999). "Sundance Summer". Time.
- ^ Weems, Wend, "Attica Locke on Murder and Race in East Texas", Publishers Weekly, July 7, 2017.
- ^ , Netflix’s “When They See Us” and Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere”"About", Attica Locke website.
- ^ Stasio, Marilyn (2019-12-05). "The Best Crime Novels of the Year". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-09.
- ^ Indiebound.org
External links
- 1974 births
- Writers from Houston
- Northwestern University alumni
- Living people
- African-American women writers
- African-American screenwriters
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American women screenwriters
- 21st-century American women writers
- American television writers
- African-American novelists
- Novelists from Texas
- Edgar Award winners
- Screenwriters from Texas
- American women television writers
- Anthony Award winners
- 21st-century American screenwriters