Gary Blackwood (author)

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Gary Blackwood
Born (1945-10-23) October 23, 1945 (age 79)
Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Genre Children's fiction, historical fiction, science fiction
Notable works The Shakespeare Stealer

Gary Blackwood (born October 23, 1945) is an American author who is known for The Shakespeare Stealer trilogy. [1]

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Biography

Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania on October 23, 1945,[ citation needed ] Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen. [2]

In 1998, he published The Shakespeare Stealer, a historical fiction novel about an orphan, Widge, who is sent to steal Hamlet from William Shakespeare and The Lord Chamberlain's Men. After it won the 1999 ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Blackwood published two sequels, Shakespeare's Scribe (2000) and Shakespeare's Spy (2003).

Since then, he has continued writing historical fiction, such as Around the World in 100 Days (2010), which the Smithsonian named a 2010 Notable Book for Children and Kirkus Book Reviews one of 2010's Best Books for Teens. In 2017, he branched out into adult fiction with a Victorian mystery featuring Charles Frederick Field, Bucket’s List, and followed it with a sequel, Bucket’s Brigade (2019).

Blackwood is also a widely-produced playwright. In 2001, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts commissioned him to write a one-act play adaptation of The Shakespeare Stealer; two years later, Seattle Children's Theatre commissioned a full-length version that has since been staged by a number of other professional theatres, including Nashville Children's Theatre and Children's Theatre of Charlotte.

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References

  1. ↑ Pinsent, P. "'Not For An Age But For All Time': The Depiction of Shakespeare In a Selection of Children's Fiction". New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 2004.
  2. ↑ "About Gary Blackwood". Penguin Group USA. Archived from the original on May 19, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Friends of American Writers Chicago Juvenile Literature Awards". Friends of American Writers Chicago. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ "1999 ALA Best Books for Young Adults". American Library Association. Retrieved January 16, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Smithsonian's 2010 Notable Books for Children". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  6. ↑ "2010 Best Books for Teens: The Complete List". Kirkus Book Reviews. Retrieved September 1, 2015.
  7. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1982). The lion & the unicorn. Rolla, Miss.: Eagle Books. ISBN   0-910971-00-5. OCLC   9179222.
  8. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1987). Wild Timothy (1st ed.). New York: Atheneum. ISBN   0-689-31352-7. OCLC   15197060.
  9. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1989). The dying sun (1st ed.). New York, NY: Atheneum. ISBN   0-689-31482-5. OCLC   18464380.
  10. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1991). Beyond the door. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Co. ISBN   0-02-274938-1. OCLC   32230780.
  11. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1995). Time masters. Singapore: EPB Publishers. ISBN   9971-0-0624-3. OCLC   226165598.
  12. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1998). The Shakespeare stealer (1st ed.). New York: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN   0-525-45863-8. OCLC   37862702.
  13. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (1999). Moonshine. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Marshall Cavendish. ISBN   0-7614-5056-4. OCLC   40681947.
  14. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2002). Shakespeare's scribe. New York: Puffin Books. ISBN   0-14-230066-7. OCLC   49231199.
  15. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2004). The year of the hangman. New York: Speak. ISBN   0-14-240078-5. OCLC   54471321.
  16. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2003). Shakespeare's spy (1st ed.). New York: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN   0-525-47145-6. OCLC   53255387.
  17. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2005). Second sight (1st ed.). New York: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN   0-525-47481-1. OCLC   58919676.
  18. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2008). The Great Race : the amazing round-the-world auto race of 1908. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers. ISBN   978-0-8109-9489-8. OCLC   138341444.
  19. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2009). Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers. Henry, Jason (Illustrator) (1st ed.). New York, N.Y.: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN   978-0-525-47960-4. OCLC   272665437.
  20. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2010). Around the world in 100 days (1st ed.). New York: Dutton Children's Books. ISBN   978-0-525-42295-2. OCLC   522384017.
  21. ↑ Blackwood, Gary. (2012). The imposter. Carver, Peter, 1936-. Markham, ON: Red Deer Press. ISBN   978-0-88995-478-6. OCLC   760975948.
  22. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (2014). Curiosity. New York, New York. ISBN   978-0-8037-3924-6. OCLC   841212313.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  23. ↑ Blackwood, Gary L. (September 2017). Bucket's list (First world ed.). England. ISBN   978-0-7278-8738-2. OCLC   1005669741.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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