The author caught up with PEOPLE about his new book, creating his iconic protagonist and his reaction to the 2024 movie The ...

Gregory Maguire says publishing a “Wicked” prequel on the heels of the wildly successful movie adaptation may seem like ...

A Wicked Childhood" to stars Idina Menzel and Cynthia Erivo, as well as all other performers to play the role of Elphaba.

Almost 30 years after the publication of "Wicked," novelist Gregory Maguire offers readers Elphaba’s origin story in a new ...

The idea of the new book comes from parts of the 1995 original that had to be removed for length before it was published. The ...

Elphie, a new prequel novel exploring the childhood of Wicked's Elphaba Thropp, is now on shelves. In an interview with the ...

Elphie” the fifth book in the Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire, explores the earlier moments in Elphaba's life that led ...

Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...

But author Gregory Maguire, whose 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West inspired both adaptations, still remains in awe of the impact of his book. “When I ...