Michael Blake was born on July 5, 1945 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He wrote Dances With Wolves in 1988 and at Kevin Costner's request adapted his novel into the screenplay that became the 1990 film, winning seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Internationally acclaimed for his humanitarian work on behalf of Native Americans and America's wild horses, Blake's sequel to Dances With Wolves, The Holy Road, was published in 2001 and he was working on a third instalment when he died in 2015.
'Inhuman agony, brilliantly portrayed' Kirkus Reviews. 'Great visionary writers like Michael Blake are often ahead of Hollywood and ahead of the audience by a generation' Irish Entertainment. 'Michael Blake was a true writer ... His love of the American West palpable' Rolling Stone.