Lights on the Lake

by Gregory Maguire

Lonely Daniel Rider, living with his parents in his dead grandmother's house in the Adirondack Mountains, becomes involved with a young poet grieving for a dead friend and a mysterious black bird that reveals other people's dreams.

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the 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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