All: Please consider this terrific event, hosted by the Lecture Series 
Committee. Tickets (free, but required) will be distributed beginning 
Wednesday at the Shriver Center Box Office. A sell-out is expected so 
go early to get a seat. -- PGN


Gregory Maguire

Wicked
November 13, 2006
8 p.m. Hall Auditorium

GREGORY MAGUIRE is the author of more than a dozen novels for children 
as well as Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, 
the 1995 work that inspired the hit Broadway musical, Wicked.  His 
other adult novels are Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (a retelling 
of Cinderella set during the Dutch Golden Age and made into an ABC 
movie starring Stockard Channing), Lost, Mirror Mirror, and Son of a 
Witch. Maguire has also written several children's novels including The 
Hamlet Chronicles, a seven book series.  Though he is best known as a 
fantasy writer, Mr. Maguire has also written picture books, science 
fiction, realistic and historic fiction.  An occasional reviewer for 
the New York Times Book Review, Maguire has published reviews of 
significant fantasies by J. K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, and Maurice 
Sendak.

He received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts 
University, was artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner 
Museum in Boston, and has received fellowship residencies at Bread Loaf 
Writers Conference and elsewhere.  A national figure in children's 
literature education, he was a professor and associate director of the 
Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College for 
eight years and is co-director and founding board member of Children's 
Literature New England, which focuses attention on the significance of 
literature in the lives of children.





Patricia Gallagher Newberry
Lecturer, Journalism Program
Miami University
513.529.5893