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Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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Author Biography

Name: Gregory Maguire
Birth Date: June 9, 1954
Place of Birth: Albany, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Gregory Maguire
2816 words, approx. 9.4 pages
"Writing is for me simply recording the story which is currently playing in my head," Gregory Maguire once commented in Something about the Author (SATA). Nevertheless, he added, "sometimes I take a long time getting up the nerve to look in on it." From...


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Wicked Information
5,532 words, approx. 18 pages
Wicked, or Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, is a parallel novel by Gregory Maguire. Based upon the writings of L. Frank Baum, it is a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz, best known from Baum's 1900 novel The...


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Variety
Every witch way but loose: novel choices lead to things never imagined by Dorothy.(Profile in excellence: Wicked)
04/26/2004: 850 words, approx. 3 pages
It's the girls, stupid!" According to three of the show's creatives, that was the mantra that kept "Wicked" on track throughout the long and tricky process of adapting Gregory Maguire's offbeat (and, at more than 400 pages, rather diffuse) fantasy novel of...
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The Boston Globe
Something Wicked In Margot Livesey's Chilling Novel, An Amnesic Woman Encounters Evil With A Familiar Face
01/30/2000: 1,299 words, approx. 4 pages
Like the finest fear-practitioners from Poe to Hitchcock, the Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey knows that the creepiest moments of life generally insert themselves into an ordinary day: The sun is shining in what appears to be a relatively benign universe, then something wicked walks...
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CommenTerry
Are Natural Disasters Punishment for Wicked Living?
2/13/2007: 425 words, approx. 1 pages
During every hurricane season without fail, I'll hear someone say something to the following effect: "It's no wonder we are having so many devastating storms; God is demonstrating His great displeasure at the fact that people have become so wicked." The sad part is that...
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The New York Observer
His Wicked Way With Women: Addams Not the Family Type
10/29/2006: 1,186 words, approx. 4 pages
Take it from one who knows: Cartoonists lead unexciting lives. Dreaming up gags is a solitary business, with none of the camaraderie enjoyed in collaborative work. No curtain calls. No ovations. And certainly not enough money to go jetting around with beautiful women. In short,...
 


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Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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