Gregory Maguire





Gregory Maguire

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June 09, 1954 in Albany, The United States

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Gregory Maguire is an American author, whose novels are revisionist retellings of children's stories (such as L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into Wicked). He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University, and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany. He was a professor and co-director at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979-1985. In 1987 he co-founded Children's Literature New England (a non-profit educational charity).

Maguire has served as artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Hambidge Center. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.



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Average rating: 3.35 · 267,617 ratings · 24,701 reviews · 32 distinct works
Wicked : The Life and Times of...
3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 175,630 ratings — published 1995 — 45 editions
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsis...
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 26,284 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions
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Son of a Witch (Wicked Years,...
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3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 23,158 ratings — published 2005 — 22 editions
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Mirror Mirror
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 13,193 ratings — published 2003 — 18 editions
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A Lion Among Men (Wicked Years...
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 8,008 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions
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Lost
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2.67 of 5 stars 2.67 avg rating — 6,818 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions
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What-the-Dickens: The Story of...
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 2,700 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions
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Out of Oz
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,320 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
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Matchless: A Christmas Story
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 976 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Wicked / Son of a Witch
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Wicked : The Life and Times of... Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz
The Wicked Years (4 books)
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3.54769230769231 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 325 ratings

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“People who claim they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of. ”
Gregory Maguire, Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Happy endings are still endings.”
Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

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