Gary Blackwood (author)

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

Gary Blackwood
Born (1945-10-23) October 23, 1945
Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
GenreChildren's fiction, historical fiction, science fiction
Notable worksThe Shakespeare Stealer

Biography

Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania on October 23, 1945, 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 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.

Awards
  • 1990 Friends of American Writers Best Young Adult Novel for The Dying Sun[3]
  • Ozark Creative Writers Conference 1st prize for Attack of the Mushroom People
  • Missouri Scriptworks 1st prize for Dark Horse
  • 1999 ALA Best Book for Young Adults for The Shakespeare Stealer[4]
  • 2010 Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children for Around the World in 100 Days[5]
  • 2010 Best Books for Teens by Kirkus Book Reviews for Around the World in 100 Days[6]

Works

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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