Gary L. Blackwood

Gary L. Blackwood is an American author best known for his captivating historical fiction for young readers. He is perhaps most celebrated for "The Shakespeare Stealer," a thrilling adventure set in Elizabethan England that follows a young orphan tasked with stealing Shakespeare's unpublished works, and its companion novels. His book "The Year of the Hangman" offers a gripping alternate history of the American Revolution. Blackwood's meticulously researched storytelling brings pivotal moments in history to life with vivid detail and page-turning suspense, making him a beloved figure in middle-grade historical fiction. He lives and writes in Missouri.