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Gary Blackwood (author)

{{short description|American author|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2015}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Gary Blackwood

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|10|23}}

| birth_place = Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| nationality =

| genre = Children's fiction, historical fiction, science fiction

| notableworks = The Shakespeare Stealer

}}

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

Biography

Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania on October 23, 1945,{{cn|date=August 2022}} Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen.{{cite web |title=About Gary Blackwood |url=http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000003975,00.html |url-status=dead |publisher=Penguin Group USA |accessdate=April 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519092833/http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000003975,00.html |archive-date=May 19, 2013}}

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.

Awards

  • 1990 Friends of American Writers Best Young Adult Novel for The Dying Sun{{cite web |url=http://www.fawchicago.org/juv_awards.php |title=Friends of American Writers Chicago Juvenile Literature Awards |accessdate=2010-12-21 |publisher=Friends of American Writers Chicago}}
  • 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{{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/1999bestbooks.cfm |title=1999 ALA Best Books for Young Adults |accessdate=2008-01-16 |publisher=American Library Association}}
  • 2010 Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children for Around the World in 100 Days{{cite web |url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Smithsonians-2010-Notable-Books-for-Children.html?c=y&page=4 |title=Smithsonian's 2010 Notable Books for Children |accessdate=2011-03-12 |publisher=Smithsonian Magazine}}
  • 2010 Best Books for Teens by Kirkus Book Reviews for Around the World in 100 Days{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/2010-best-books-teens-complete-list/around-world-100-days |title=2010 Best Books for Teens: The Complete List |accessdate=2015-09-01 |publisher=Kirkus Book Reviews}}

Works

  • The Lion and the Unicorn (1983){{Cite book|title=The lion & the unicorn|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1982|publisher=Eagle Books|isbn=0-910971-00-5|location=Rolla, Miss.|oclc=9179222}}
  • Wild Timothy (1987){{Cite book|title=Wild Timothy|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1987|publisher=Atheneum|isbn=0-689-31352-7|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=15197060}}
  • The Dying Sun (1989){{Cite book|title=The dying sun|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1989|publisher=Atheneum|isbn=0-689-31482-5|edition=1st|location=New York, NY|oclc=18464380}}
  • Beyond the Door (1991){{Cite book|title=Beyond the door|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1991|publisher=Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Co|others=Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company.|isbn=0-02-274938-1|location=New York|oclc=32230780}}
  • Time Masters (1995){{Cite book|title=Time masters|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1995|publisher=EPB Publishers|isbn=9971-0-0624-3|location=Singapore|oclc=226165598}}
  • The Shakespeare Stealer (1998){{Cite book|title=The Shakespeare stealer|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1998|publisher=Dutton Children's Books|isbn=0-525-45863-8|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=37862702}}
  • Moonshine (1999){{Cite book|title=Moonshine|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=1999|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=0-7614-5056-4|location=Tarrytown, N.Y.|oclc=40681947}}
  • Shakespeare's Scribe (2000){{Cite book|title=Shakespeare's scribe|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2002|publisher=Puffin Books|isbn=0-14-230066-7|location=New York|oclc=49231199}}
  • The Year of the Hangman (2002){{Cite book|title=The year of the hangman|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2004|publisher=Speak|isbn=0-14-240078-5|location=New York|oclc=54471321}}
  • Shakespeare's Spy (2003){{Cite book|title=Shakespeare's spy|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2003|publisher=Dutton Children's Books|isbn=0-525-47145-6|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=53255387}}
  • Second Sight (2005){{Cite book|title=Second sight|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2005|publisher=Dutton Children's Books|isbn=0-525-47481-1|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=58919676}}
  • The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908 (2008){{Cite book|title=The Great Race : the amazing round-the-world auto race of 1908|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2008|publisher=Abrams Books for Young Readers|isbn=978-0-8109-9489-8|location=New York|oclc=138341444}}
  • Mysterious Messages: A History of Codes and Ciphers (2009){{Cite book|title=Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2009|publisher=Dutton Children's Books|others=Henry, Jason (Illustrator)|isbn=978-0-525-47960-4|edition=1st|location=New York, N.Y.|oclc=272665437}}
  • Around the World in 100 Days (2010){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/aroundworldin1000000blac|title=Around the world in 100 days|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=2010|publisher=Dutton Children's Books|isbn=978-0-525-42295-2|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=522384017|url-access=registration}}
  • The Imposter (2012){{Cite book|title=The imposter|last=Blackwood, Gary.|date=2012|publisher=Red Deer Press|others=Carver, Peter, 1936-|isbn=978-0-88995-478-6|location=Markham, ON|oclc=760975948}}
  • Curiosity (2014) {{Cite book|title=Curiosity|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|isbn=978-0-8037-3924-6|location=New York, New York|oclc=841212313|year = 2014}}
  • Bucket's List (2017){{Cite book|title=Bucket's list|last=Blackwood, Gary L.|date=September 2017 |isbn=978-0-7278-8738-2|edition=First world|location=England|oclc=1005669741}}
  • Bucket's Brigade (2019)

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://www.garyblackwood.net/}}
  • {{IMDb name|nm8181147}}

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Category:1945 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Meadville, Pennsylvania

Category:Grove City College alumni

Category:American children's writers

Category:20th-century American novelists

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Category:21st-century American male writers