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.com

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

Career

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

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

Awards

References

  1. ^ Samuels Gibbs, Adrienne (Spring 2020). "The Write Path". Northwestern Magazine. Northwestern University. Retrieved April 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. ^ a b "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. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  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. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  10. ^ "RSL International Writers | 2023 International Writers". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  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. Retrieved September 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. ^ Stasio, Marilyn (December 5, 2019). "The Best Crime Novels of the Year". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  15. ^ "2020 Shortlist". Staunch Book Prize. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  16. ^ Indiebound.org

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