Gregory Maguire
Author · 48 books
Gregory Maguire is an American author, whose novels are revisionist retellings of children's stories (such as L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz into Wicked). He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University, and his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany. 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 (a non-profit educational charity).Maguire has served as artist-in-residence at the Blue Mountain Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Hambidge Center. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Series
Books
Crabby Cratchitt
1980
Seven Spiders Spinning
1994
Son of a Witch
2005
Egg & Spoon
2014
Half-Minute Horrors
2009
The Oracle of Maracoor
A Novel
2022
The Dark of the Woods
Fairy Tales for Modern Times
2006
The Peace and Quiet Diner
1988
Leaping Beauty
And Other Animal Fairy Tales
2004
The Good Liar
1996
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
1999
The Dream Stealer
1983
Making Mischief
A Maurice Sendak Appreciation
2009
Lost
2001
A Couple of April Fools
2004
Elphie
A Wicked Childhood
2025
I Feel Like the Morning Star
1989
A Wild Winter Swan
2020
Six Haunted Hairdos
1997
Cress Watercress
2022
Matchless
An Illumination of Hans Christian Andersen's Classic "The Little Match Girl"
2009
Lights on the Lake
1981
Brothers and Beasts
An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
2007
Four Stupid Cupids
2001
The Witch of Maracoor
2023
Tales Told in Oz
2012
Out of Oz
2011
The Wicked Series Box Set
Wicked / Son of a Witch / Out of Oz / A Lion Among Men
2013
A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
2000
Missing Sisters
1994
Am I Blue?
Coming Out from the Silence
1995
The Lightning Time
1978
Five Alien Elves
1998
The Exquisite Corpse Adventure
2011
One Final Firecracker
2005
After Alice
2015
The Brides of Maracoor
2021
Hiddensee
A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker
2017
The Next Queen of Heaven
2009
Oasis
1900
Three Rotten Eggs
2002
A Lion Among Men
2008
Wicked / Son of a Witch
2008
The Letter Q
Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves
2012
Wicked
The Graphic Novel, Part 1
2025
What-the-Dickens
The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
2007
Mirror Mirror
2003
Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
1995
