About Attica
New York Times bestselling author of six novels including the Edgar Award-winning Highway 59 trilogy. Her novels have received numerous literary honors: Pleasantville won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, The Cutting Season won the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Black Water Rising was nominated for Edgar, NAACP Image, and Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. As a screenwriter and television producer, she has worked on Empire, When They See Us, and the Emmy-nominated Little Fires Everywhere, for which she won an NAACP Image award.
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AuthorCrime FictionLiterary FictionScreenwritingTelevision Adaptation
Known for
- Highway 59 trilogy crime novels
- Bluebird, Bluebird
- Heaven, My Home
- Guide Me Home
- Pleasantville
- The Cutting Season
- Black Water Rising
- Empire television series
- When They See Us television series
- Little Fires Everywhere television series
- From Scratch Netflix adaptation
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