* Wicked ( musical ), a Broadway and West End musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel

According to the revisionist version of the Oz history chronicled in Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the slippers were given to Nessarose, the future Wicked Witch of the East, by her father.

While not exactly a villain, Dorothy is not the hero in Gregory Maguire's revisionist 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

* In author Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West ( a 1995 revisionist novel based on the inhabitants of Oz ) and in the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), the Wizard is a tyrannical ruler who uses deceit and trickery to hide his own shortcomings.

Tip makes a cameo appearance In Son of a Witch, the second volume of " The Wicked Years ", Gregory Maguire's revisionist take on Oz.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, Quadling Country is described as a largely undeveloped, swampy region, with the ruddy-faced Quadlings being portrayed as artistic and sexually free.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, this area is called the Vinkus, and it is revealed that " Winkie " is considered a derogatory term.

In Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, she is initially called " Galinda ," and ( through her mother ) is descended from the noble clan of the Arduennas of the Upland.

As in Gregory Maguire's revisionist novel, Glinda is characterized by her popularity and goes by the name of Galinda Upland ( who hails from the Upper Uplands ).

The love triangle between Glinda, Fiyero and Elphaba is what primarily distinguishes the Wicked musical incarnation of Glinda from Gregory Maguire's novel.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, the Gillikin Country is simply called ' Gillikin '.

The Tin Woodman is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation and Maguire's 2005 sequel Son of a Witch.

Oz is roughly rectangular in shape, and divided along the diagonals into four countries: Munchkin Country ( but commonly referred to as ' Munchkinland ' in adaptations ) in the East, Winkie Country ( called " The Vinkus " in Gregory Maguire's Wicked and its sequel Son of a Witch ) in the West ( sometimes West and East are reversed on maps of Oz, see West and East below ), Gillikin Country in the North, and Quadling Country in the South.

When the house lands, it crushes the Wicked Witch of the East ( in Gregory Maguire's book, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, she is given a name, Nessarose ), ruler of the Munchkins.

A somewhat sinister version of Tik-Tok is a minor character in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

The Cowardly Lion is a minor character in author Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its 2003 Broadway musical adaptation.

A skittish and fearful lion cub is seen at Shiz University in Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Gregory Maguire's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr's account of his own origins, or lack thereof ( he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, herd, etc.

In that film adaptation, as in Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and its musical adaptation Wicked, the Witch of the West is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East, although this is neither stated nor implied in the original novel.

* Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West takes the familiar Oz story and inverts it, with the Wicked Witch ( given the name Elphaba in homage to L. Frank Baum ) as the novel's protagonist and Dorothy as a hapless child.

Lurline also appears in Wicked, Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel set in Oz ; she is sometimes called " Lurlina ".

* In Gregory Maguire's novel Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba's adoptive father, Frex, is the seventh son of a seventh son.

In 1995, Gregory Maguire published Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz.

Gregory Maguire, author of the revisionist Oz novels Wicked and Son of a Witch, has written that The Emerald City of Oz " is suffused with an elegiac quality " and compares its tone with that of The Last Battle, the final volume of C. S. Lewis ' Chronicles of Narnia.

In his revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Son of a Witch, and A Lion Among Men, Gregory Maguire portrays a very different version of the Land of Oz.

Both Gregory Maguire's 1995 revisionist novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the musical Wicked ( based on the book ), follow the model of the 1939 movie in giving the name " Glinda " to the character who grows up to become The Good Witch of the North.

In Gregory Maguire's revisionist Oz novels Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and Son of a Witch, " Pastorius " was the widower of Ozma the Bilious, who died from an apparently accidental poisoning, and father to Ozma Tippetarius, who was approximately the same age as Elphaba.

The Marvelous Land of Oz was dedicated to David C. Montgomery and Fred Stone, the comedians " whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land ..." This is referred to in the acknowledgements for Son of a Witch where Gregory Maguire acknowledges all of the cast of the stage musical, especially Joel Grey, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel.

Mombi and Tip make a cameo appearance in Gregory Maguire's second Oz novel, Son of a Witch ( though only Tip is named ).

In Gregory Maguire's fourth Oz novel, Out of Oz, the armies of Munchkinland are led by one " General Jinjuria ", apparently a reference to Jinjur.

Boudica's story is the subject of several novels, including books by Rosemary Sutcliff, Roxanne Gregory, Pauline Gedge, Manda Scott, Alan Gold, Diana L. Paxson, David Wishart, George Shipway, Simon Scarrow and J. F. Broxholme ( a pseudonym of Duncan Kyle ).

Gregory P. Lee's " The Laughing Lip " series acknowledges the influence of Traveller in the development of the three novels published to date.

Cecil appears as a character in the novels I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles, The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory and is a prominent secondary character in several books by Bertrice Small.

* Philippa Gregory wrote more than ten historical novels set in England, including The Other Boleyn Girl

Most of her novels have been recently republished, several with forewords by Philippa Gregory.

A character based on Charles XII plays a major role in The Age of Unreason, a series of four alternate history novels written by American science fiction and fantasy author Gregory Keyes.

He is also a central character in novels by Philippa Gregory, Earthly Joys, and Evelyn Anthony, Charles, The King.

Norfolk is also one of the characters in the Philippa Gregory novels The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance.

* Thomas Howard appears as a character in the Philippa Gregory novels The Virgin's Lover and The Other Queen, and in the novel I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles.

The influence of the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole, Gregory " Monk " Lewis and Charles Maturin is noticeable, and that of Walter Scott too, if only because the heroine, abandoned and left alone, resists not only by her almost supernatural talents, but mainly due to the power drawn from her temperament.

* The Mantis, one of the most elusive and deadly human-killing " mechs " ( mechanical lifeforms ) in Gregory Benford's Galactic Center Saga novels

Gregory Keyes ( born April 11, 1963 ) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names " J. Gregory Keyes " and " Greg Keyes ".

Gregory " Greg " Rucka ( born November 29, 1969 ) is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman, Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.

The Age of Unreason is a series of four novels written by Gregory Keyes:

Michaelhouse is the setting for the Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles, a series of Mediaeval mystery novels by Susanna Gregory.

Notable works inspired by Irish mythology included James Stephens ' The Crock of Gold ( 1912 ), Lord Dunsany's The Curse of the Wise Woman ( 1934 ), Flann O ' Brien's humorous At Swim-Two-Birds ( 1939 ), Pat O ' Shea's The Hounds of the Morrigan ( 1985 ) and novels by Peter Tremayne, Morgan Llywelyn and Gregory Frost.

* Irwin Maurice " Fletch " Fletcher, the main character in the novel Fletch and subsequent novels by Gregory McDonald