With Wicked now in theaters, the adaptation of the Broadway musical — which itself is an adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s ...

Published in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz quickly became a best seller and realized Baum’s aim of giving America a fairy ...

The book is a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Elphaba, the name of the Wicked Witch of the West, is derived from the original creator’s initials. Go on ...

The Wicked movie and Broadway musical of the same name have some similarities to the original children’s story The Wonderful ... ‘Wizard of Oz’ author In 1995, Gregory Maguire wrote the book ...