Award-Winning Author to Speak at Countryside
Posted February 28, 2008
(CHAMPAIGN, IL - February 28, 2008) Award-winning author Gary L. Blackwood will visit Countryside School on Monday, March 3 to speak with the 2nd through 8th grade classes. Countryside’s Book Club recently read Blackwood’s The Shakespeare Stealer.
Gary Blackwood started his writing career as a teen, and has since become a prolific author of novels for both young adults and middle-grade readers, in addition to penning plays and nonfiction.
Blackwood’s awards include: 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; and Best Book for Young Adults citation, American Library Association 1998 for The Shakespeare Stealer.
While Blackwood is in Champaign-Urbana he will also speak at Krannert Center and the University of Illinois’ Rare Book and Manuscript Library.