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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).
The book and musical could be distilled to the same plot summary: Behold, the unexpected backstory of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda the Good.
Related: Wicked Review: Ariana Grande Steals the Show in an Oz-some Adaptation of the Hit Broadway Musical But the book spends much more time laying out the social, political and ethical ...
The original source material for “Wicked” is the beloved children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” published in 1900. L. Frank Baum published 14 books over the next 20 years in the ...
Wicked Lovely is a young adult/urban fantasy novel by author Melissa Marr. The story follows protagonist Aislinn, who has the Sight (the ability to see faeries ), and whose life begins to unravel when it seems the fey-folk develop a sudden interest in her.
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]
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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 adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, itself a reimagining of the Oz books and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.