Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:15:19 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Author Event Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> from the Olssons email service: Saturday, October 1 at 1:00PM || Gregory Maguire || At Olsson's Arlington/C= ourthouse, 2111 Wilson Blvd., 703-525-4227=20 Son of A Witch, the long-anticipated sequel to the beloved and hugely = successful novel Wicked, now Broadway's #1 smash hit musical. Animals = talk, dragons prowl the skies, and political unrest afflicts the land of = Oz. The story's protagonist is Liir, the probable offspring of Elphaba = Thropp, the late, somewhat unlamented Wicked Witch of the West. As a boy = barely in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways with which he = may be unskilled. Has he power of his own? =20 *----------------------- mjw