who wrote wicked

Gregory Maguire wrote Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the 1995 novel that inspired the Wicked musical and subsequent adaptations. The book is the first in Maguire’s Wicked Years series and presents a revisionist backstory of the Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, exploring themes of good and evil, power, and fate.