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

The movie and Broadway musical are based on Maguire’s 1995 novel ‘Wicked,’ itself an adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at ...

Local “Wizard of Oz” fans will have much to celebrate in Mattydale on Saturday afternoon. The Lyman Frank Baum Foundation Incorporated of Syracuse is hosting a “magical celebration” from 1 to 5 p.m.

The clearest candidate for America’s favorite fairy tale might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American ...