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Michael Lennox Blake (July 5, 1945 – May 2, 2015) was an American author, best known for the film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
May 5, 2015 · Michael Blake, who had been washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant when an old friend, Kevin Costner, asked him to adapt his own novel into a screenplay, which became the Oscar-winning script...
I am mainly interested in first-person accounts and look for something written by someone who experienced something of interest at that particular time in history. While 'researching' for what would become Dance With Wolves I came across a book called Plains Indian Raiders by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye. In it an anecdote told about a wagon driver ...
May 10, 2015 · Michael Blake, who has died of cancer at the age of 69, was a writer whose novel Dances With Wolves became a hit film that earned him an Academy Award for the screenplay. He wrote the book at...
May 2, 2015 · The author of several novels, including the New York Times #1 Bestseller Dances With Wolves and winner of the 1991 Academy Award.
May 4, 2015 · Obituaries. Michael Blake dies at 69; ‘Dances With Wolves’ screenwriter. Michael Blake won a 1991 screenwriting Oscar for Kevin Costner’s film “Dances With Wolves,” which became the first...
Best-selling Author. Dances With Wolves. DANCES WITH WOLVES. Learn More. "In the end, inspiration is everything." - Michael Blake. MICHAEL LENNOX BLAKE. July 5, 1945 - May 2, 2015. Painting by John Solie. Limited Availability. Set of 3 books. Limited sets available from a private printing of 500.
