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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...real life is going to have a fairy tale made about them 500 years from now?GM: Living...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Gregory Maguire | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Living or recently deceased. GM: Well it is hard for me to think that people will ever stop being fascinated by Virginia Woolf. And the further we get from that extremely class-bound society, the more like a queen she will seem. “Queen Woolf,” what a great name for a book...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Gregory Maguire | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...have said that your stories are rife with political meaning. Does that come from “The Wizard of Oz” or you as an author? GM: I think that “The Wizard of Oz” more or less side-stepped a lot of social implications, I think it was all about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and did not pay too much attention to anybody in Oz who might not have bootstraps with which to pull himself or herself...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Gregory Maguire | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...your characters have real life counterparts? GM: The character Shell, by the time I got to “Son of a Witch,” is sort of a pastiche of President George W. Bush...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Gregory Maguire | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...your goal to encourage adult reading and bring back childhood? GM: Absolutely, and we should love to read. We should pick something up and say, “Oh I can’t believe I have this, oh how great!” That is how we should want to feel about our books, and that is what I hope people feel about my books...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Gregory Maguire | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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