Gregory Maguire
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| Born: | June 9, 1954 Albany, New York |
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| Occupation(s): | Novelist
<tr><th style="text-align: right;">Genre(s):</th><td>Fantasy</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: right;">Influences:</th><td>L. Frank Baum, Charles Dickens, T. H. White</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align: right;">Website:</th><td>http://www.gregorymaguire.com</td></tr> |
Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954 in Albany, New York) 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.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] For Children
- Hamlet Chronicles
- 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
[edit] For Adults
- Innocence and Experience: Essays and Conversations on Children's Literature, ed., with Barbara Harrison. Non-fiction essays. (1986)
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
- Lost (2001)
- Mirror, Mirror (2003)
- Son of a Witch (2005)
- A Cowardly War
[edit] Short Stories
- Scarecrow (2001), a story about how the Scarecrow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes into existence, published in Half-Human, edited by Bruce Coville.
- Fee, Fie, Foe et Cetera (2002), a parody of Jack and the Beanstalk, published in The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
- The Oakthing (2004), published in The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
[edit] External links
- Gregory Maguire official website
- Gregory Maguire profile at FestivalofWords.org
- Gregory Maguire at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
