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Attica Locke

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Houston, Texas, The United States

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http://www.atticalocke.com/

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Born in Houston, Texas, Attica Locke has worked in both film and television for over ten years. She has written movie scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros., Disney, Twentieth Century Fox and most recently completed an adaptation of Stephen Carter's The Emperor of Pictures. She now lives in Los Angeles. Black Water Rising is her first novel.

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...more

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Books by Attica Locke

Average rating: 3.34 · 662 ratings · 199 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Black Water Rising 3.34 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Cutting Season: A Novel 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Kuroki Mizu No Uneri by Attica Locke, 高山真由美 (翻訳) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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M/T Reading Friends: Updated June 2009 Releases	7	55	May 17, 2009 08:28pm
Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: Black Water Rising	31	37	Nov 27, 2009 10:38pm
Literary Fiction ...: Edgar Award Nomination For Attica Locke	4	20	Feb 26, 2010 11:23am
Literary Fiction ...: Orange Prize Longlist includes Attica Locke & other Authors of Color	16	21	Apr 20, 2010 07:46pm
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