Writer Attica Locke

Houston native sisters Tembi and Attica Locke are the creators and executive producers of the Netflix series, "From Scratch," based on Tembi's best-selling memoir about her relationship with her Italian husband, who died of a rare cancer.

Houston native sisters Tembi and Attica Locke.

In the heart of many native Texans is a deep pride and love for the Lone Star State.

Attica Locke knows that well. The Houston native Hollywood screenwriter and producer notable of Fox’s “Empire” and Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” has written six novels and masterfully captures East Texas life in her writing.

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Texans are warm people until they cut you, she says. Not physically, but more like that famous line from “The Color Purple” movie, “Until you do right by me, everything you think about is gonna crumble.”

We know that Texas can be a Hollywood stereotype. Locke doesn’t play into that. She takes readers down U.S. Route 59 to the East Texas towns of her ancestors to tell stories of crime, race, politics and family.

“There’s a very pragmatic way of........

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