Book Talk with Attica Locke
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The Ernest J. Gaines Center is pleased to announce that Attica Locke, 2013 Gaines Award Winner and writer and producer for the Fox hit television show Empire, will be a book talk in April at UL Lafayette. Locke’s first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, and was short-listed for the prestigious Orange Prize in the U.K. Her second novel, The Cutting Season, won the Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and her latest novel, Pleasantville, was short-listed for the CWA Dagger Award. Locke is a former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab and worked as a screenwriter before becoming a novelist. She has penned scripts for many major studios like Paramount, Warner Bros. and Disney. Locke will read her latest novel, Pleasantville on April 5, 2016, at 2:00 p.m., at the Ernest J. Gaines Center in Edith Dupre Library at UL Lafayette. April 6, 2016 at 6:00 p.m., Locke will also read from The Cutting Season at the Lulu Hilliard Art Museum, with both talks featuring a question and answer period after. For more information, please contact Cheylon K. Woods, Director of the Ernest J. Gaines Center via email: cheylon.woods@louisiana.edu