-LSB-...] In today's NYT, Chip McGrath
profiles debut thriller writer, Attica Locke, whose Black Water Rising has received strong review coverage.
Two years later, he could be seen in another high -
profile, politically tinged
thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting
debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.