Attica Locke
Biography
Attica Locke
Attica Locke is a New York Times bestselling author whose sixth novel, GUIDE ME HOME, is the finale to her Edgar Award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, which also includes BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD and HEAVEN, MY HOME. She is also the author of PLEASANTVILLE, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and longlisted for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction; THE CUTTING SEASON, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and her debut, BLACK WATER RISING, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
A former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Locke is also a screenwriter and TV producer, with credits that include "Empire," "When They See Us" and the Emmy-nominated "Little Fires Everywhere," for which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing. She co-created and executive produced an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke’s memoir, FROM SCRATCH, for Netflix. She is currently in a multi-year development deal with Universal Television, working on adaptation of her Highway 59 series, among other shows.
A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
Attica Locke
