Gregory Maguire

Karen Graham (University of Strathclyde)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 1954
Activity 1978-ongoing

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Active in United States

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Fiction

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Maguire's Works

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Best known as the author of

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

(1995), the book adapted into the award-winning Broadway and West End musical, Gregory Maguire is a prolific writer of children’s and adult fiction. Born in Albany, New York, Maguire was the fourth of seven children raised by his father and stepmother after his natural mother died while giving birth to him. Often during talks, interviews and appearances he has recalled the lack of television in their lives growing up with the notable exception of the annual viewing of

The Wizard of Oz

(MGM, 1939) when it aired on US television around Christmas time. This ritualistic viewing provided the imaginative foundation to his and his siblings’ play, with Maguire the self-confessed ring leader assigning the…

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Citation: Graham, Karen. "Gregory Maguire". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 November 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14055, accessed 22 November 2024.]