Michael Blake is an American author, best known for his film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves. He was born on July 5, 1945 and is still writing (planning a film adaptation to his most recent novel The Holy Road).

Biography

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Early in his life, his family lived in Texas, before moving to southern California, where they moved frequently. He began writing when he was stationed at Walker Air Force Base, when he wrote for the base newspaper. Later he studied journalism at the University of New Mexico, and later studied at a film school, in Berkeley, California. He also attended Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. In the late 1970s he moved to Los Angeles; during the eighties he only one of his screenplays was produced, called Stacey’s Knights. The movie stared Kevin Costner, who later convinced him to produce Dances with Wolves, which won many awards (including an Oscar). After this production, he went on to do humanitarian work, and continued to write. He recently has begun work, on a film adaptation of a sequel to Dances with wolves. ^*

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Screenplays

• Stacey’s Knights – 1980s
• Dances with Wolves – 1988
• The Holy Road – in process

Novels

• Dances with Wolves – 1986
• Airman Mortensen – 1991
• The Holy Road – 2001
• Marching to Valhalla – 1997

Non-fiction

• Like A Running Dog (Autobiography) – 2002

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