Hackwith name-checks characters and places in the larger Oz canon - the Nome king ... are thin. The book lacks the emotional impact of Gregory Maguire’s “Wicked” and its sequels, or other ...

“Wicked” – the movie, the Broadway musical and the book – crafts Dorothy’s nemesis as a fully-formed (and green) character with her own tragic backstory. The book is a prequel to ...

Like King Arthur. Until T ... I’ve written another 25 books after Wicked, and the fact that I had one giant, colossal, explosive success doesn’t change the impulse that I have in my heart ...