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 …
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