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