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Occupation. Author and screenwriter. Alma mater. University of New Mexico. Eastern New Mexico University. 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 .
- July 5, 1945, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.
- May 2, 2015 (aged 69), Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
May 5, 2015 · By Bruce Weber. May 4, 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 ...
May 4, 2015 · May 3, 2015 7:35 PM PT. When Michael Blake was writing his novel “Dances With Wolves,” he was living in Los Angeles on friends’ couches or, sometimes, in his car. He did occasional odd jobs ...
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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 the ...
May 6, 2015 · Michael Blake, the writer whose novel Dances With Wolves became a major hit movie and earned him an Academy Award for the screenplay, has died. Blake, 69, died Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, after a ...
Best-selling Author. Dances With Wolves. Both pursuing their dreams of making movies, Michael Blake and Jim Wilson first met in 1977 while attending the Berkeley Film Institute. After leaving the school, they each went their separate way but a chance meeting reunited them in Los Angeles in 1981where Wilson pitched an idea for a "gambling" movie ...
May 2, 2015 · in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, The United States. July 05, 1945. Died. May 02, 2015. Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. The author of several novels, including the New York Times #1 Bestseller Dances With Wolves and winner of the 1991 Academy Award.
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