Attica Locke
Author of Bluebird, Bluebird
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- Birthdate
- 1974
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- Northwestern University
- Occupations
- screenwriter
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- Attica Locke is a writer whose first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, a 2010 NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was longlisted for an Orange Prize in the UK. Attica is also a screenwriter who has written movie and television scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, Dreamworks and Silver Pictures. She was also a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmakers Lab and is a graduate of Northwestern University. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
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"Black Water Rising" by Attica Locke in Orange January/July (August 2011)
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