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Gary Blackwood (author) Gary Blackwood (author) 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),