Gary Blackwood

Gary Blackwood (born 1945-10-23 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American author. He grew up in rural Western Pennsylvania. He loved books even as a young child. He believed them as treasures and still does. He attended school in a one room schoolhouse. This schoolhouse had only one small bookcase. Blackwood was nineteen when he sold his first story. He has sold dozens of stories to children's magazines. He has published twenty-one novels for young adults and middle readers. Gary has even written half a dozen plays. His plays have been produced in regional and universities theatres. Blackwood actually said in an interview: "While I was still young enough to be sleeping in a crib, I struck a deal with my mother: I'd give up sucking my thumb if she bought me a series of Gene Autry comics I'd seen advertised on a cereal box."

Books

• 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

Awards

• Friends of American Writers Best YA Novel 1989 for The Dying Sun
• Ozark Creative Writers Conference 1st prize for Attack of the Mushroom People
• Missouri Scriptworks 1st prize for Dark Horse
• Best Book of Young Adults American Library Association 1998 for The Shakespeare Stealer