'Wicked' Author to Pen New Galinda Prequel Book, Sets Release Date!

Gregory Maguire is working on a new Wicked book!

The author of the original “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” novel, which the Broadway musical and two-part movie adaptation are based on, will be writing another prequel, this time focused on Galinda’s adolescence.

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In the forthcoming novel, “Galinda: A Charmed Childhood,” Gregory will chart the origin story of Galinda, who she was before she became who she was at Shiz University and beyond.

Here’s a synopsis, via Harper Collins: The youngest of four children in a high-born family down on their luck, Galinda is both pampered and ignored. Her natural grace promises to elevate her in the district dance competitions—but these efforts distract her from seeing the growing resentments of local merchants who disapprove of her family’s business strategies. Enmired in the self-satisfactions and unnamed timidities of childhood, Galinda finds in herself neither canniness nor the need to cultivate it. However, as her father deftly pivots around the snares and nets laid for him by his competitors, Galinda begins to dance toward a life that might lift her above her proud, if hardscrabble, childhood.

The book currently has a release date set for September 29, 2026, and you can currently pre-order your copy on Amazon!

This will serve as a sister volume to “Elphie: A Wicked Childhood” that was released earlier this year. Cynthia Erivo even narrates the audiobook. You can purchase the audiobook and/or a physical copy of the novel on Amazon HERE.

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Pictured in the gallery are Wicked: For Good‘s Glinda actress Ariana Grande and young Galinda actress Scarlett Spears at the New York premiere earlier this month.