Biography
Michael Blake was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Dances with Wolves (1988) and its screenplay adaptation for the 1990 film of the same name.
Blake was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He served in the US Air Force, studied journalism at the University of New Mexico and attended film school at the University of California, Berkeley. In the 1980s he wrote the screenplay for Stacy's Knights (1983), which starred Kevin Costner. Costner later encouraged Blake to develop the story that became Dances with Wolves.
Blake won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Golden Globe and a Writers Guild of America Award for the Dances with Wolves screenplay. He died in Tucson, Arizona, in 2015.
