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Gregory Maguire


Born
in Albany, New York, The United States
June 09, 1954

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


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: 3.51 · 889,870 ratings · 51,111 reviews · 128 distinct works • Similar authors
Wicked: The Life and Times ...
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Son of a Witch (The Wicked ...
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Confessions of an Ugly Step...
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Mirror Mirror
3.29 avg rating — 30,854 ratings — published 2003 — 41 editions
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Out of Oz (The Wicked Years...
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After Alice
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“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: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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