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Gregory Maguire

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born
June 09, 1954 in Albany, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Children's Books, Literature & Fiction


About this author

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: 3.37 · 311,530 ratings · 26,085 reviews · 39 distinct works
Wicked: The Life and Times ...
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 206,688 ratings — published 1995 — 48 editions
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Confessions of an Ugly Step...
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 28,748 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions
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Son of a Witch (Wicked Year...
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3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 25,988 ratings — published 2005 — 23 editions
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Mirror Mirror
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 14,622 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions
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A Lion Among Men (Wicked Ye...
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 9,486 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions
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2.68 of 5 stars 2.68 avg rating — 7,464 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions
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What-the-Dickens: The Story...
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 3,017 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions
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Out of Oz (Wicked Years, #4)
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,428 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
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Matchless: A Christmas Story
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 1,124 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Wicked / Son of a Witch
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 721 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Series by Gregory Maguire

Wicked: The Life and Times ... Son of a Witch A Lion Among Men Out of Oz
The Wicked Years (4 books)
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3.383465858994873 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 244,984 ratings
Seven Spiders Spinning Six Haunted Hairdos Five Alien Elves Four Stupid Cupids Three Rotten Eggs A Couple of April Fools One Final Firecracker
The Hamlet Chronicles (7 books)
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3.537142857142857 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 350 ratings

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Quotes by Gregory Maguire

“People who claim that 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
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“Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked Musical Tie-in Edition: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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“Happy endings are still endings.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch
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