Speakers

Noontime Talk on Wednesday, April 26

Artists in Conversation: Gregory Maguire, Gardner Museum Artist-in-Residence 1994 and author of Wicked and other books Join author, Gregory Maguire and Curator of Contemporary Art, Pieranna Cavalchini for a conversation on Maguire’s oeuvre, the creative writing process, and his experience as an Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner Museum in 1994. Gregory Maguire is the author of four imaginative and remarkable novels for adults: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), praised by John Updike in the New Yorker as "an amazing novel," Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999), Lost (2001), Mirror Mirror (2003) and Son of a Witch (2005).

His children's novels include The Hamlet Chronicles, a seven book series including, Seven Spiders Spinning, Six Haunted Hairdos, Five Alien Elves, Four Stupid Cupids, Three Rotten Eggs. A Couple of April Fools and One Final Firecracker. Mr. Maguire's work for adults and for children has been published abroad in England, Ireland and Australia, and various works have been purchased for translation into French, German, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

Tickets: FREE with museum admission.

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