Attica Locke
Attica Locke | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University School of Communication |
| Genre | Fiction, television, film |
| Relatives | Tembi Locke (sister) |
| Website | |
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Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.
Career
[edit]Locke graduated from Northwestern University School of Communication in 1995,[1] and was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, where she studied 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][9] It premiered on Netflix in October 2022.
In 2023, she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer.[10]
Personal life
[edit]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. She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority [14]
Bibliography
[edit]- Black Water Rising (2009), HarperCollins
- The Cutting Season (2012), Dennis Lehane / HarperCollins
- Pleasantville (2015), HarperCollins
- 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".[15]
- Guide Me Home (2024), Mulholland Books
Awards
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Nominations[edit]For Bluebird, Bluebird:
For Pleasantville:
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For The Cutting Season:
For Black Water Rising:
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References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. 3 September 2023. 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.
- ^ watchtheyard (2024-07-07). "Tembi Locke Inducted as Honorary Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha". Watch The Yard. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
- ^ 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
[edit]- Dansby, Andrew (August 13, 2020). "Houston author Attica Locke on capturing the tumult of contemporary America". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
External links
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- 1974 births
- 20th-century African-American writers
- 20th-century African-American women
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American screenwriters
- 21st-century American women writers
- African-American novelists
- African-American screenwriters
- American television writers
- American women novelists
- American women screenwriters
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- Anthony Award winners
- Edgar Award winners
- Living people
- Northwestern University alumni
- Novelists from Texas
- Screenwriters from Texas
- Writers from Houston
- African-American women screenwriters