fiction.wikisort.org - WriterAttica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.
American writer
Attica Locke |
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Born | 1974 (age 47–48) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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Language | English |
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Alma mater | Northwestern University School of Communication |
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Genre | Fiction, television, film |
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Relatives | Tembi Locke (sister) |
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atticalocke.com |
Career
A 1995 graduate of Northwestern University School of Communication,[1] Locke was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, studying screenwriting and directing.[2][3] 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.[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] It premiered on Netflix in October 2022.
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.[9]
She now lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.[4] Actress Tembi Locke is her older sister.[10]
She is a 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".[11]
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
- 2020: Staunch Book Prize – Heaven, My Home[12]
Nominations
For Bluebird, Bluebird:
- 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
For Pleasantville:
- Longlisted for the 2016 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction
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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[13]
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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.
- "About", Attica Locke website.
- Sikka, Madhulika (September 16, 2019). "Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she's found success in both worlds". Washington Post. 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.
- Alford, Henry (November 22, 2018). "When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using 'Reveal' as a Noun". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- Petski, Denise (February 22, 2021). "Nzingha Stewart To Direct Netflix Limited Series 'From Scratch'". Deadline. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
- 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.
- Stasio, Marilyn (December 5, 2019). "The Best Crime Novels of the Year". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- "2020 Shortlist". Staunch Book Prize. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
- Indiebound.org
Further reading
External links
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- RERO (Switzerland)
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