Maguire, Gregory

Gregory Maguire is an American author. He is the author of the novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and many other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are revisionist retellings of classic children's stories: for example, in Wicked he transformed the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into the sympathetic protagonist Elphaba. Wicked was turned into a hit Broadway musical of the same name.

He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University. 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 [1]. He still serves as co-director of CLNE, although that organization has announced its intention to close after its 2006 institute.[2]

He has three adopted children and is married to painter Andy Newman.

Bibliography

For Children

• Hamlet Chronicles
  • Seven Spiders Spinning (1994)
  • Five Alien Elves (1998)
  • Six Haunted Hairdos (1999)
  • Four Stupid Cupids (2000)
  • Three Rotten Eggs (2002)
  • A Couple of April Fools (2004)
  • One Final Firecracker (2005)
• The Lightning Time (1978)
• The Daughter of the Moon (1980)
• Lights on the Lake (1981)
• The Dream Stealer (1983)
• I Feel the Morning Star (1989)
• Lucas Fishbone (1990)
• Missing Sisters (1994)
• "The Honorary Shepherds", in Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence, a collection of short stories for gay and lesbian teenagers. (1995)
• Oasis (1996)
• The Good Liar (1997)
• Crabby Cratchitt (2000)
• Leaping Beauty: And Other Animal Fairy Tales (2004) with Chris L. Demarest

For Adults

• Innocence and Experience: Essays and Conversations on Childrens Literature, ed., with Barbara Harrison. Non-fiction essays. (1986)
• Wicked (novel) (1995)
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
• Lost (2001)
• Mirror Mirror (2003)
• Son of a Witch (2005)

External links

• Gregory Maguire official website
• Gregory Maguire profile at FestivalofWords.org