Leaping Beauty

Gregory Maguire is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Years, a series that includes Wicked the beloved classic that is the basis for the blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name and the major motion picture Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. His series Another Day continues the story of Oz with The Brides of Maracoor, The Oracle of Maracoor, and The Witch of Maracoor, and his other novels include A Wild Winter Swan, Hiddensee, After Alice, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, and Mirror Mirror. Some of his novels for children include Cress Watercress, Leaping Beauty, and Egg & Spoon, winner of a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. He lives in New England and France.