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Attica Locke (born 1974 in Houston, Texas) is an American fiction author and writer/producer for television and film.
Attica provides a stark commentary on politics, racial ethnicity, family, love and the law, all as gripping and sad as her first book. The American South’s disgraceful history tells of how the crimes of the past loop in with the present.
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Attica Locke is a NY Times best-selling author of five novels. Heaven, My Home, sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird; Pleasantville, winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction; The Cutting Season, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and ...
‘From Scratch’ is based on a true story and inspired by Tembi Locke’s memoir. She and sister Attica Locke explain how they brought the book to life.
Darren must solve the crimes – and save himself in the process – before Lark’s long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas, BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD, is an exhilarating, timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America.
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 shortlisted for an Orange Prize in the UK.
Attica Locke. Producer: Little Fires Everywhere. Attica Locke's latest Pleasantville is the 2016 winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was shortlisted for the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction, and made numerous "Best of 2015" lists.
Oct 16, 2019 · In "Heaven, My Home," Darren Matthews is sent to Caddo Lake, an immense body of water, to help investigate the disappearance of a child. The missing 9-year-old is the son of an Aryan Brotherhood ...
Sep 12, 2017 · Attica Locke. A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well.
