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Maguire’s “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”— a revisionist take on L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” — originally published in 1995 and was ...
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is an American novel published in 1995, written by Gregory Maguire with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch (published in September 2005), A Lion Among Men (published in October 2008), and Out of Oz (published in November 2011).
Wicked (Maguire novel), a 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire that inspired the musical of the same name; Wicked, a 1997 novel series collaboration between Australian children's authors Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman; Wicked (novel series), a young adult novel series written by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié
In 1995, Maguire published his first adult novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. A word of mouth success, it sold 500,000 copies by the time the Broadway adaptation opened in 2003. In 2005, ten years after its publication, Wicked spent 26 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. [1]
If the Wicked movies follow a similar timeline to both the book and the musical, then the events from The Wizard of Oz will be featured in Wicked Part 2 (out November 21, 2025) and occur as early ...
Wicked (titled onscreen as Wicked: Part I) is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox.It is the first installment of a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a reimagining of the Oz books and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Published in 1995, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West not only became a bestseller but was adapted into a hit Broadway musical that has become one of the longest-running ...