Gregory Maguire was born on June 9,1954 and is an American novelist.
13 Facts About Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire is the author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children.
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Gregory Maguire published his first novel, The Lightning Time, in 1978.
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Gregory Maguire is married to American painter Andy Newman, in one of the first same-sex marriages performed in the state of Massachusetts.
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Gregory Maguire's mother died from complications suffered giving birth to him, which prompted his father to send him to live with an aunt.
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Gregory Maguire's aunt relinquished him to a local orphanage when he was six months old.
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Gregory Maguire was reclaimed from the orphanage at age two, after his father's remarriage.
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In 1978, at the age of 25, Gregory Maguire published his first novel, The Lightning Time.
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Gregory Maguire was a professor and co-director at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979 to 1986.
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In 1987, Gregory Maguire co-founded a nonprofit educational charity, Children's Literature New England, Inc.
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Gregory Maguire has lived in Dublin, London, and the greater Boston area.
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In 1995, Gregory Maguire published his first adult novel, Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
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Gregory Maguire met American painter Andy Newman in 1997 at the Blue Mountain Center art colony.