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Attica Locke

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Attica Locke
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Houston,Texas,U.S.
LanguageEnglish
Alma materNorthwestern University School of Communication
GenreFiction, television, film
RelativesTembi Locke(sister)
Website
atticalocke

Attica Locke(born 1974 inHouston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.

Career

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Locke graduated fromNorthwestern University School of Communicationin 1995,[1]and was a fellow at theSundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab in 1999, where she studied screenwriting and directing.[2][3]She has written scripts forParamount,Warner Bros.,Disney,20th Century Fox,Jerry Bruckheimer Films,HBO,andDreamWorks.She was a writer and producer on theFoxdramaEmpire.[4]Most recently, she was a writer and producer on Netflix'sWhen They See Usand the Hulu adaptation ofLittle Fires Everywhere.[5][6][7]

In 2021, it was announced that Locke would serve as executive producer and showrunner for the Netflix Limited SeriesFrom Scratch,an adaptation of her sisterTembi Locke's 2019 memoir entitledFrom Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily and Finding Home.[8][9]It premiered on Netflix in October 2022.

In 2023, she was elected as aRoyal Society of LiteratureInternational Writer.[10]

Personal life

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Locke was born inHouston, Texas,to parents who were active in thecivil rights movementat the turn of the 1970s. They named her after the 1971Attica Prison rebellionin upstate New York.[11]

She now lives inLos Angeles, California,with her husband and daughter.[4]ActressTembi Lockeis her older sister.[12][13]

She is a member of theWriters Guild of America, West.She is an honorary member ofAlpha Kappa Alphasorority[14]

Bibliography

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Awards

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References

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  1. ^Samuels Gibbs, Adrienne (Spring 2020)."The Write Path".Northwestern Magazine.Northwestern University.RetrievedApril 11,2022.
  2. ^Lopez, Steve (July 19, 1999)."Sundance Summer".Time.
  3. ^Weems, Wendy (July 7, 2017)."Attica Locke on Murder and Race in East Texas".Publishers Weekly.
  4. ^ab"About",Attica Locke website.
  5. ^Sikka, Madhulika (September 16, 2019)."Attica Locke left Hollywood to write novels. Now she's found success in both worlds".Washington Post.ISSN0190-8286.RetrievedSeptember 14,2020.
  6. ^Jefferson, Nathan (October 31, 2019)."Justice and Forgiveness: On Attica Locke's 'Heaven, My Home' - LARB".Los Angeles Review of Books.RetrievedSeptember 14,2020.
  7. ^Alford, Henry (November 22, 2018)."When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using 'Reveal' as a Noun".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedSeptember 14,2020.
  8. ^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.
  9. ^Petski, Denise (February 22, 2021)."Nzingha Stewart To Direct Netflix Limited Series 'From Scratch'".Deadline.RetrievedAugust 3,2021.
  10. ^"RSL International Writers | 2023 International Writers".Royal Society of Literature. 3 September 2023.Retrieved3 December2023.
  11. ^Laity, Paul (September 15, 2017)."Attica Locke: 'When Trump was elected, overnight my book changed. I didn't alter a word'".The Guardian.
  12. ^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.RetrievedSeptember 14,2020.
  13. ^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.
  14. ^watchtheyard (2024-07-07)."Tembi Locke Inducted as Honorary Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha".Watch The Yard.Retrieved2024-07-08.
  15. ^Stasio, Marilyn (December 5, 2019)."The Best Crime Novels of the Year".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.RetrievedDecember 9,2019.
  16. ^"2020 Shortlist".Staunch Book Prize.RetrievedNovember 26,2020.
  17. ^Indiebound.org

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