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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Gary Blackwood


Role
  
Author

Education
  
Grove City College

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Born
  
October 23, 1945 (age 79) Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S. (
1945-10-23
)

Genre
  
Children's fiction, historical fiction, science fiction

Notable works
  
The Shakespeare Stealer

Nominations
  
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History

Books
  
The Shakespeare Stealer, The Year of the Hangman, Shakespeare's Scribe, Shakespeare's Spy, Wild Timothy

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Gary Blackwood (born October 23, 1945) is an American author known for The Shakespeare Stealer trilogy. Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen. 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.

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Awards

  • 1990 Friends of American Writers Best Young Adult Novel for The Dying Sun
  • 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
  • 2010 Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children for Around the World in 100 Days
  • 2010 Best Books for Teens by Kirkus Book Reviews for Around the World in 100 Days

    • Works

  • The Lion and the Unicorn (1983)
  • Wild Timothy (1987)
  • The Dying Sun (1989)
  • Beyond the Door (1991)
  • Time Masters (1995)
  • The Shakespeare Stealer (1998)
  • Moonshine (1999)
  • Shakespeare's Scribe (2000)
  • The Year of the Hangman (2002)
  • Shakespeare's Spy (2003)
  • Second Sight (2005)
  • The Great Race: The Amazing Round-the-World Auto Race of 1908 (2008)
  • Mysterious Messages: A History of Codes and Ciphers (2009)
  • Around the World in 100 Days (2010)
  • Curiosity (2014)

    • References

    Gary Blackwood (author) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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