Attica Locke

Attica Locke is the author of Heaven My Home a Waterstones Book of the Month Bluebird Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Attica Locke has worked on the adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere and Ava DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five When They See Us. A native of Houston Texas Attica lives in Los Angeles California with her husband and daughter.