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

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood strives to square Gregory Maguire’s original book with the adaptations, and one character ...

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

The latest addition to the Wicked Years series is a great addition to Elphaba's story, but fails to really stand on its own.

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 ...

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

Author Gregory Maguire wrote the book “Wicked” as a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” — and how he’s adding more to the story ...

Gregory Maguire says publishing a “Wicked” prequel on the heels of the wildly successful movie adaptation may seem like “leaping after low hanging fruit,” but it’s a story he’s been waiting to tell ...

“Elphie: A Wicked Childhood,” out now from HarperCollins, is Maguire's eighth book in the "Wicked" universe, and this one tells the story of the titular green witch's youngest years. Many ...

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

Before she defied gravity, she was just Elphie Thropp. Best-selling author Gregory Maguire is back with "Elphie: A Wicked Childhood," a new prequel that explores the early life of Elphaba—the girl who ...