![]() With careful attention to details of the time, the author re-creates a swashbuckling world where men duel with swords if their honor is questioned, where females disguise themselves as males if they want a life on the theater stage, and where servants do not question the word of their masters. Blackwood sets his tale of theatrical intrigue against the backdrop of Elizabethan London in 1601. Blackwood's first book was The Lion and the Unicorn, which he published when he was nineteen. ![]() While a college student, Blackwood published his first short story, Cliffs of Gold, in Twelve/ Fifteen magazine. in English from Grove City College in Pennsylvania. He attended school in a one room schoolhouse. He grew up in rural Cochranton, Western Pennsylvania. ![]()
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