About the Author

Gregory Maguire, the author of Wicked and many other children and adult novels. He was born in Albany, New York on June 9th, 1954. He went to school at State University of New York in Albany where he recieved his BA. He later gained his Ph. D at Tufts University. His latest works have included: A couple of April Fools, One Final Firecracker, What- the- Dickens; The story of a Rouge Tooth Fairy, Son of a Witch and Son of a Lion. "Writing is for me simply recording the story which is currently playing in my head," said Maguire." He has won artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and fellowship residences at Blue Mountain Center, New York -the Hambidge center, Georgia- The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts- and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Vermont.
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