Compared to previous books in the series, there is less happening to drive the narrative. Instead, “Elphie” serves as a ...

In Act II of Wicked, Elphaba and Glinda get into an altercation, and in “What Is This Feeling," when they fight each other ...

The author caught up with PEOPLE about his new book, creating his iconic protagonist and his reaction to the 2024 movie The ...

For fans, like me, looking to fill their “Wicked” obsession, “Elphie," the fifth book in the Wicked Years series, provides ...

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

A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire.Gregory Maguire's new Wicked prequel novel, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood, sheds further ...

Elphaba is green in Wicked because her biological parents drink a “green elixir” while pregnant with her. In fact, they state ...

with a new look at Elphaba Thropp, the beloved green heroine, before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with familiar jealousy, her thirst for knowledge and her ...

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

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 ...